Nearly 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, high-quality 3D images of the wreck are being captured to document a site that may soon disappear forever. The luxury cruise liner hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing 1,500 people. Teams searched for decades to find the vessel but it was not until 1985 that the iconic relic was discovered, 2.5 miles beneath the surface of the ocean. Now the structure is disintegrating and it may not be long before the vessel's skeleton crumbles into the abyss. RMS Titanic, the US group with the exploration rights to the site, are trying to produce a high-tech map of the area to preserve it in digital history. Scientists and archaeologists have sent a remote operated vehicle with a camera attached down to the ocean floor and the first images have been beamed back up. The crew, which set sail for Newfoundland in Canada, will provide real-time video and photo updates via Facebook for the duration of the 20-day mission. The team also hopes the detailed images, captured using sonar and high-resolution video, could shed more light on why the boat sank. However, operations have had to be put on hold because of Hurricane Danielle. The team has returned to St John's in Newfoundland and will go back once it is safe. Source: Sky News