Over 1.500 are dead, and not a single skeleton remains.
Various expeditions that have visited the wreck of the Titanic over the decades have been able to see various things, but there is one thing they could not find.
Close to 1.500 people died when the famous ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg, but even though most of the passengers sank with the Titanic, you won’t find their remains at the site.
What did Cameron see?
Film director of Titanic and submarine enthusiast James Cameron, who has visited the wreck dozens of times, claims he has spent more time on the ship than its captain.
As early as 2012, Cameron said he had “seen evidence” that people sank with the ship, but not the bodies themselves.
“I didn’t see a single human remain,” he stated.
“We saw clothing. We saw pairs of shoes, which would strongly suggest that at one point, there was a body there. But we never saw human remains,” added the famous director.
The question arises: where did all the bones go? But luckily, science gives us the answer.
Deep-sea expert Robert Ballard said that when you descend to a depth of nearly 900 meters “you go below what is called the calcium carbonate compensation depth,” which provides a key clue about where the bones of those who died on the Titanic went.
There once were skeletons
“The water in the deep sea is undersaturated in calcium carbonate, which is mostly, you know, what bones are made of,” Ballard explained.
“For example, at the Titanic and at the Bismarck, those ships are below the calcium carbonate compensation depth, so when creatures eat their flesh and expose the bones, the bones dissolve.”
So, there once were skeletons, but their flesh disappeared long ago, and the exposed bones dissolved in the water as a result.
