A gold necklace with a megalodon tooth was found among the wreckage of the Titanic (4 photos + 1 video)

A rare artifact was recently seen in footage taken yet last summer by the British firm Magellan Ltd to create the first detailed digital model of the sunken ship.





Around the necklace are other items that are not yet have been identified, but apparently these are also various decorations. However, Magellan Ltd, which works with Atlantic Productions over a documentary film about last year's expedition, it is forbidden lift them from the seabed.

Magellan Ltd sent submersibles for research of all parts of the sunken ship, which is located on depth of 3790 meters in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 650 kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Apparatuses held more than 200 hours at depth and took 700,000 pictures of the ship from all sides for future 3D reconstruction.



Now, while viewing the footage, experts noticed the characteristic shape of a shark tooth and upon closer examination realized it was a necklace.

Richard Parkinson, director of Magellan, called the find "amazing, beautiful and breathtaking." "We found a megalodon tooth, which was turned into a pendant for a necklace - it's incredible, it's just unbelievable,” he told ITV News.

It is known that the teeth of the extinct megalodon are one of the the largest fish that ever existed - reaching more than eighteen centimeters in length. Catalina Pimento, paleontologist at the University Shark Specialist Swansea Says Recording Difficult determine if it is indeed a megalodon tooth. “It seems that the tooth has a "cervix", which is a darker area between crown and root,” she told MailOnline. - But because the image is of such poor quality, it's hard to know if it's real So.

Megalodon teeth vary in color from pink to blue and black - due to deposits in the place where they were found, and also in size.

“Usually they are, of course, very large, but you can also find teeth of very young individuals or from the back of the jaw where they are quite small,” Dr. Pimento said.





As with the thousands of other personal items at the crash site, the original owner of the necklace is unknown, although it was most likely first class passenger. Now Magellan plans to use artificial intelligence to identify the wearers of the necklace and other items, as well as contact the ancestors of 2,200 passengers and crew "Titanic". AI will study footage of passengers, paying attention to their faces and clothes in which they were seen on board the ship for a few days before the Titanic hit an iceberg on the evening of 14 April 1912.

Since the discovery of the sunken Titanic in 1985 thousands of items recovered from its wreckage were brought to land, but now an agreement between the UK and the US prohibits private firms to do this. The American company RMS Titanic Inc is the only organization legally allowed to raise artifacts from the wreck of the Titanic.