A closer look: Channel Island company creates interactive Titanic experience

ITV Channel reporter Alexandra Spiceley took a deep dive into the making of the game...

Images of the Titanic from the largest underwater scanning project in history have been transformed into an interactive experience.

Magellan Deep Water specialists, who have offices in both Jersey and Guernsey, took 700,000 images whilst mapping the site back in 2022.

The Titanic was a luxury passenger liner which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg.

The deep-water investigation specialist used two remotely operated vehicles at depths of around 3,800 metres to produce the images of the wreck which were then made into a moving scan.

The images also revealed a necklace on the seabed that had not been seen in more than one hundred years.

Christin Richards from Magellan said: "We have reprocessed these images and we have tried to share them inside this game in the same way that we see them every day through the lens of an ROV pilot."

Magellan's Thomas Holt said: "It's faithful to the Titanic as it was in 2022 but obviously time hasn't been kind to it but you can still see it as it is, and there are still tonnes of recognisable features of it and then combine that with the library and the information about the various parts you're scanning as you through it.

"I think it's a pretty all-round educational and entertaining experience because you can still go and discover as if you're really there."

The game is downloadable and allows users to explore the ship's bow.

Senior Remote Operated Vehicle Pilot Gregor Young said: "Very few people get the opportunity to visit the wreck site itself, so actually giving people the opportunity to experience it, that is a big thing.

"There is the human tragedy as well, you'll see people's belongings and that's the thing that touches you the most when you're scouring the sea bed and having a look through the cameras."

It's believed that around 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912.

Descendants of people who were on board the Titanic have had the chance to see the game, Rosie Boleat said: "It is incredible really to think that my descendant was in there right at the bottom really because he was a stoker, he got out and he saved a lot of people.

Magellan says there is more to come but for now, they have given many the chance to get closer to the Titanic than ever before.

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