This project is an attempt to collect various maps and scans of the Titanic wreck site and georeference them against known locations with exact lat-long coordinates. The project was created in QGIS and you can edit the underlying maps and markers there in the titanic-stjohns.qgs file.
For more information visit https://waynepiekarski.net/projects/titanic-map.htm, and there is a web preview for those who want to just look at the maps and not make changes.
This project's QGIS files and other metadata are licensed under CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License
The images referenced are copyrighted by their various authors and available for download at the following locations:
https://www.whoi.edu/multimedia/the-original-titanic-map/ https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/the-quest-to-map-titanic/ WHOI researchers Bob Ballard, Elazar Uchupi, and William Lange created this first map of the Titanic wreck site based on images collected during two WHOI expeditions in 1985 and 1986. It was published in 1988 and was the most complete map until the new one was completed after the 2010 expedition. debris_field_whoi.jpg
https://www.gc.noaa.gov/documents/2012/012512-maritime_day.pdf https://www.gc.noaa.gov/documents/2012/013112_gcil_mepc1-circ779.pdf Contains list of weight drop zone locations along with a chart relative to the wreck site 012512-maritime_day.jpg 013112_gcil_mepc1-circ779.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20230630091432/https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/proper-debris-field-mapping-and-where-to-find-it.52830/ 1603985732138 English.png 1603985732138 Original.png Debris Field Map 1.JPG
Titanic: Destination Disaster : the Legends and the Reality. John P. Eaton, Charles A. Haas, 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=iLI43mWtZRkC&lpg=PA180&ots=8o9Bbx-K2k&dq=49%C2%B0%2056%E2%80%B2%2049%E2%80%B3%20W%2C%2041%C2%B0%2043%E2%80%B2%2032%E2%80%B3%20N%20boilers&pg=PA180#v=onepage&q&f=true eaton-haas-ballard-titanic-coordinates.png
https://www.whoi.edu/multimedia/titanic-in-a-new-light/ titanic-mosaic-bow.jpg titanic-mosaic-stern.jpg
Google Images? tmip3su4a6551.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20201203103311/https://www.sunjournal.com/2012/03/09/full-titanic-wreck-site-mapped-first-time/ TitanicMap_Reav1.jpg TitanicMap_Reav2.jpg TitanicMap_Reav3.jpg TitanicMap_Reav4.jpg
This data contains 3D positioning coordinates from the ROV, and this data has been cleaned up and added as markers on the map. These markers are also labelled and match with the transcript of the recorded videos from the mission. Unfortunately the tracking data seems to drift so much that the positioning information is not useful.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/oer-digital-atlas/mapsOE.htm?lat=1&lng=125&zoom=7&survey=Titanic%252520Expedition%2525202004 and search for “Titanic”. It shows two missions from 2003 and 2004, and it includes extra metadata including the lat-long coordinates of each vehicle, as well as a transcript of what the vehicle was looking at. 2004 complete archive: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/archive-management-system/OAS/bin/prd/jquery/download/72311.1.1.tar.gz
Hercules is the NOAA ROV, and Argus is a support vehicle that floats above holding the fiber tether. For this git repo: I removed all the surface ship and Argus data, as well as the raw sensor data for the water conditions, and just kept the 3D track and event log.