WATCH: Newly released footage shows Titanic wreckage prior to ship’s deterioration

Heather Hamilton

February 19, 06:00 AM February 19, 06:00 AM

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Never-before-seen footage of the Titanic’s wreckage has been released.

The “rare, uncut, and unnarrated footage”was recorded by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in July 1986 during the first crewed voyage to the Titanic’s resting place along the Atlantic Ocean’s floor.

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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution premiered the video this week in coordination with the 25th anniversary of the remastered release of James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning 1997 film Titanic.

Robert Ballard led the voyage to the wreckage in 1986 and told NBC’s Today that landing on the deck of the ship was “amazing, almost hard to believe.”

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“It was really literally entering a preserved museum, and the deeper you got into the ship, the more preserved it was,” Ballard said.

Ballard said his team’s footage was used as inspiration for the Titanic film.