Scientists were set to launch on Wednesday what they called an effort to “virtually raise” the Titanic by using 3D techniques to map the entire wreckage site of the sunken transatlantic liner for the first time. Using cutting-edge robots, acoustic imaging, sonar technologies and high resolution optical, video and 3D imaging, a team of experts from various organizations will reconstruct a comprehensive and detailed picture of the remains of the ship and of the wreckage site on the floor of the North Atlantic, much of it never seen before. “About 40 percent we think - maybe 50 percent - of the Titanic site has never been looked at,” said co-expedition leader Dave Gallo, director of special projects at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the world's largest private nonprofit oceanographic institution, based in Massachusetts. “Everything to this point has been pretty much exploration, or adventure,” Gallo said, noting that this expedition will be the first to work archeologically on the deep-water site.
