The Titanic may have survived more than a century at the bottom of the North Atlantic, but a chunk of the ship's iconic bow railing, featured in the movie of the same name, has not, newly released photos show.

During a public Coast Guard hearing on Monday, some unfortunate new details of the Titan submersible disaster have come to light. It's been 15 months since the tiny vessel took off to visit the Titanic shipwreck 12,

Lying at the bottom of the cold North Atlantic, the Titanic has changed dramatically in the 112 years since it sank. New photos of the wreck show just how much the old ship has decayed in recent years.