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At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most ...

As the ship's bow continued to sink, the stern rose into the sky. Shortly after 2 a.m., the Titanic's lights went out. Soon after, the ship broke into two pieces, and the bow sank beneath the waves.

The two broken pieces (the hull and the stern) are approximately 400 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada, at a depth some 2.3 miles below sea level (or about 13,000 feet).

Titanic broke in half just before it made its final plunge in the early hours of April 15, 1912, and now two parts of the ship – the bow and the stern – lie 2,600 feet apart.

2:20 am: The Titanic's broken-off stern settled back into the water, becoming more level for a few moments. Slowly, it filled with water and tilted its end high into the air before sinking into ...

By 2:20 a.m., the Titanic had vanished. As for how long it took for the ship to actually hit the ocean floor, it depends on whom you ask.

Ultimately, the Titanic outweighed her sister by more than 1000 tons,” Paul R. Ryan wrote in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution magazine Oceanus. 2.