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In December 2020, the website HistoricalPost.com advertised a new dramatic story about the Titanic: Divers Exploring The Titanic Wreckage Made A Spine-Chilling New Discovery. The advertisement led to an 80-page story with the headline: Divers Explored The Titanic For The First Time In 14 Years – And They Made A Haunting Discovery. The story also described the new discovery as being deeply shocking. However, the big reveal was the fact that the ship was quickly deteriorating, perhaps not surprising given it had been under water for more than a century. It was true that a 2019 expedition found that the wreckage of the Titanic was rapidly deteriorating. Explorers took the DSV Limiting Factor submersible down to the ship five times. It was the first dive down to the Titanic with people aboard in nearly 15 years. On Aug. 21, 2019, BBC.com reported that the expedition found that the wreck is deteriorating rapidly. Titanic historian Parks Stephenson referred to the 2019 expedition as being shocking. However, we were unable to find any mention of anything that was deeply shocking, as mentioned in the 80-page story from HistoricalPost.com. An opposing perspective came from oceanographer David Gallo, who also had some expertise in diving to the Titanic. He told USA Today that he didn't find the purported discovery to be shocking: A documentary from the 2019 expedition titled Back to the Titanic was released on Disney+ and National Geographic. We recently covered other claims about the Titanic. One said that the hidden truth of the ship's sinking had been covered up for decades. Another story advertised that an old camera had been found in the deep ocean with horrifying Titanic photos still loaded into the device.
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