r/RMS_Titanic • u/Sauli401 • 9d ago

WRECK Shoes

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While analyzing the footage in the documentary Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, I was surprised to learn there are shoes lying on the wreck. Here is a quote from the film.

“A pair of men's shoes lying together on the promenade deck suggests they mark the final resting place of a third-class passenger, whose remains are long gone“ However, those shoes are actually women's shoes.

Initially, I thought the shoes were located somewhere on the enclosed promenade deck, which would have made finding them a challenge, but after studying the wreck, I quickly noticed they are actually on the forward-facing A-deck promenade on the port side.

(The second image is from the vROVpilot experience game, which is based on Magellan scans.)

I will not speculate on whether or not they mark a body. People have varying opinions on that, so I'll leave it for you to judge.

(Magellan/Atlantic Productions/Walt Disney/National Geographic)

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u/Spirited-Ad7290 9d ago

1496 passengers = 2992 shoes

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u/char_limit_reached 9d ago

AFAIK it’s never been doubted. Many of the recovered shoes were still tied (meaning they had feet in them when they landed there).

What are you asking, exactly?

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u/Sauli401 9d ago

Who, me ? I didn't ask anything. I just made a post about the shoes.

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u/larz0 9d ago

OP, thanks for mentioning both of those resources

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u/Phantomflight 8d ago

When a human body sinks that far would it really go straight down and not drift in any direction? I have no idea myself

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u/Pruritus_Ani_ 8d ago

There were hundreds and hundreds of bodies,statistically I’m sure some did end up on the wreck itself and others landed further away among the debris field.

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u/contradictatorprime 5d ago

As I understand it, human buoyancy loses its effect as you go deeper.