Why You Won't Find Bodies On The Titanic | Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron

[music playing] JAMES CAMERON: You won't find bodies at Titanic. You won't find skeletons. The bones actually dissolve into solution very rapidly at that depth. What anybody has explored the wreck find is pairs of shoes. MAN: It takes years for a skeleton to vanish, but the shoes treated with tannic acid-- they won't eat them. So all around the Titanic are the shoes. There's a scene, where we were filming, and we came across a pair of woman's shoes-- Yeah. --next to a pair of girl's shoes. These were people. These were people. Those shoes got to the bottom on people. MAN: They were in their cabin, because the cabin was all around, the destruction of it. And there was a hand-mirror. This is the human element. This is what people touched. It's what they lived with. MAN: Amazing.

Channel: National Geographic

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Length: 1min 19sec (79 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 26 2017