In the photo: Explore the sunken ships of World War II in virtual reality.

SS Thistlegorm (Thistlegorm Project) is a famous sinking and diving site in the Red Sea, which was recreated by a group of marine archaeologists and imaging experts with virtual reality technology on the Internet. The Thistlegorm project started this month and includes a very detailed 3D model. When the British cargo ship 194 1 was sunk by German bombers, it was transporting allied war materials to the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The project website also provides 360-degree video clips of several key locations around the shipwreck. [Learn more about SS thrips project]

Simon Brown, the photogrammetry consultant of the thrips project who photographed the sunken ship (thrips project), dived underwater 12 times, with a total time of *** 13 hours, and photographed this huge sunken ship. It takes tens of thousands of photos to photograph the whole sunken ship, covering an area of over 28,000 square meters (30 1,

Three-dimensional data

(Thistlegorm Project) Brown then used photogrammetry software to analyze his photos of the sunken ship, which can extract three-dimensional data from a set of calibrated photos. A large amount of 3D data extracted from the photos is then used to create an accurate 3D model of the sunken ship. Thrips are now located on the seabed near the top of Sinai Peninsula, with a depth of about 30 meters (90 feet).

Three-dimensional model (thrips project) The complete three-dimensional model of thrips shipwreck is presented on the project website. This model is based on the data of more than 24,000 underwater photos, and it is the largest underwater shipwreck photogrammetry so far. [Learn more about thistle-free project]

The cargo ship (Albyn Line)thiss less was built for the Albyn Line Shipping Company in Sunderland, northeast England, and was launched at 1940. As an armed cargo ship partially funded by Britain in wartime, thistle-free ship is1941/kloc-0. German bombers were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns when they found SS thrips near the entrance to Suez Bay. At that time, it was full of allied war preparations and went to Alexandria, Egypt. The whole ship and its cargo-including trucks and heavy machine guns.

In 1950s, French diving pioneer Jacques Coustau rediscovered the remains of thistle. Since the nearby Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh was developed into a diving resort in 1990s, this skyscraper and its spectacular sunken cargo have become one of the most popular sinking sites in the world.

Joint efforts "KDSP" (Thistlegorm project) The "KDSP”(Thistlegorm project is the result of the joint efforts of archaeologists and imaging experts from Nottingham University in the United Kingdom, Alexandria University in Egypt and Ain Shams University in Cairo. Video clips (Thistlegorm project) and detailed 3D models based on photogrammetry of sunken ships, visitors to the website of Thistlegorm project can experience some feelings of diving in key positions on sunken ships through several 360-degree video clips.

Raising People's Awareness The members of the KDSP project "Hagai Nativ" hope that the online audience can be exposed to the miracle of the sinking of the Jiyun Canal and help protect these sites by raising their awareness of the underwater heritage in this area. [Learn more about SS Thistle Project] "