In case you have watched the motion picture “Titanic,” with its intense illustration of the last minutes of a massive sea liner, you might imagine how frightening the plunging of a ship might be. However, when the ruined remains of these ships are found on the ocean underside, they have a remarkably tranquil, even gorgeous look, virtually as if the struggling they once produced has been rinsed away.
Here are some of the stirring graphics caught of these wrecks by undersea discoverers.
One of it, the RMS Rhone, a British vessel that transported mail, travellers, horses and various products, sank in the course of a hurricane off the seaside of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands in October 1967 — strangely enough, soon after it had taken on voyagers from another vessel that was considered less durable.
Barely 23 of the 146 team and original travellers on board lived.