“When first went down, it was pristine and you went straight into the hull and through the windows,” Stockton tells Trisha Thadani at The Boston Globe. Since scientists captured the last images of the wreck two years ago, there have been drastic changes, Stockton tells Philip Marcelo at the Associated Press. A large section of the bow has crumbled and the entire superstructure collapsed. “There’s a lot about their decay processes that not well understood.” “Steel ships with aluminum superstructures, like the Andrea Doria and so many wrecks from World War II, are very common and potentially polluting,” OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush tells Romey.
The team wants to create a 3-D model of the 697-foot ship to help them understand how wrecks decay over time.
Last week, the company OceanGate sent a manned submersible down to map the wreck, using sonar to asses the condition of the rusting remains. Stockholm struck the Italian liner Andrea Doria, sending the ship into the depths. For decades, the wreckage has been fodder for divers who dubbed it, “The Everest of Shipwrecks.” But now scientists are joining the crowd, Kristin Romey reports for National Geographic. It happened July 25, 1956. In the thick fog off the coast of Nantucket, the Swedish cruise liner M.S.
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