File talk:RMS Titanic wreck depth to scale.jpg

I absolutely love this image's core idea of showing what 3,800 metres (12,500 ft) really looks like, as the human brain is unable to accurately understand with precision this part of deep-ocean floor (a phenomenon that Richard Dawkins has called "Middle Earth", as the human brain has evolved in a world and lifestyle where things don't go too fast or slow, or are too big or too small.

However... I have noticed that this image appears to be inaccurate in its claim of being to scale. The RMS Titanic had a total length of 882 feet (269 m), and using the depth shown in the image of 12,000 feet (3,700 m), this should mean that the ship could be stacked end-to-end about 13.61 times to equal the same depth/length. Without even measuring the image exactly, it is obviously inaccurate in its depiction of the ship both at the surface and at the bottom, as to stack end-to-end the image's ship and wreck would require many, many more than 13.61 ships. The iceberg also depicted in the image in relation to the very small ship would mean that the iceberg would be as high as a mountain. While icebergs may be very large, the iceberg that the RMS Titanic hit was much, much smaller.

I hope that a person on here with more graphics experience than me, or a particularly good nose for information could maybe correct the image or find an alternate image. I love the idea of the image and think it would be worth it to make a new one or edit this current version.

Thanks, Jjfredregill (talk) 03:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)