Rare video of 1986 dive through Titanic wreckage being released

The release of the footage is in conjunction with the 25th anniversary release on February 10 of the remastered version of the Academy Award-winning film Titanic.

An underwater remote vehicle examines an open window of the Titanic 12,500ft below the surface of the ocean, 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in 1986 (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution via AP)

Rare and in some cases never before publicly seen video of the 1986 dive through the wreckage of the Titanic is being released.

The more than 80 minutes of footage on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI) YouTube channel chronicles some of the remarkable achievements of the dive led by Robert Ballard that marked the first time human eyes had seen the giant ocean liner since it struck an iceberg and sank in the frigid North Atlantic in April 1912.