The First Pictures Of RMS Titanic On Sea Bed
These pictures have never before been seen by the general public.
The sonar pictures on the left have been authenticated to have come from around the period 1977-1980. They have come from a report from a company called Fathom Line Limited during that period.
The report was sent to ‘Now’ magazine, along with other photographs printed in the magazine or in The Observer newspaper on 8th September 1985.
Fathom Line were employed by Seawise & Titanic and used on the ‘Sollis Project’ for the expedition to the North Atlantic in 1977-78 aboard the HMS Hecate. The ship was captained by Commander John Grattan. The Grattan Report he produced has confirmed this to be true and the ‘Sollis Project’ to have taken place, using new sonar equipment being tested for the Royal Navy during the Cold War. Both the reports also confirm the same location of the wreck of the Titanic printed in ‘Now’ magazine and The Observer newspaper. These are not the coordinates given at the Mersey Report after the sinking in 1912.
The pictures show the stern of Titanic using sonar images before being identified as the great ship. They also indicate only one part of the ship, due to the distance between the two parts.
Do not assume that the letter ‘M’ stands for either metres or miles on the caption as this is not true. However, there is nothing we could find to indicate what it does mean.
