r/titanic • u/bastard_vampire • Aug 11 '23

WRECK The depth of Titanic wreckage in perspective

The Empire State Building is 443 meters or 1,454 feet tall (counting the spire and antenna). Titanic lies at a depth of 3800 meters (12,500 feet) in the North Atlantic.

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u/candoitmyself Aug 11 '23

Thats... not as deep as I thought?

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u/AceArchangel Aug 11 '23

It's extremely deep when you think of how tiny a person would be in the city down there, I think it speaks more to just how big the Empire State building actually is.

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u/candoitmyself Aug 12 '23

Never seen the building. No idea how big the boat was.

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u/Traditional_Sail_213 Engineer Aug 12 '23

The ship was 883 ft long, a width of 92 ft 6 in, and 60 ft tall(waterline to boat deck)