⚓ Titanic Wreck — Collapsed Stern Section (1991) The stern of RMS Titanic is the most devastated part of the wreck. When the ship broke apart during the sinking, the stern was pulled almost straight upward, twisting and crushing the steel structure before it plunged nearly 12,500 feet to the ocean floor. By the time of the 1991 expeditions, the stern was already a collapsed and twisted mass of steel, further damaged by: • deep-sea pressure • strong ocean currents • and iron-eating bacteria (Halo