“Titanic”’s Last Secrets: Inside the Race to Save Ship's Final Treasures Before They’re Lost Forever (Exclusive) From crumbling steel to personal artifacts, each item tells a story — and ...

To date, all items raised from the Titanic have been recovered from within a 15-square-mile debris field — a vast underwater scatter zone formed when the ship broke apart during its final descent.

As the name suggests, the colossal 15-ton segment of the ship’s starboard hull is the largest artifact ever raised from the Titanic, stretching more than 26 feet across.