The Titanic, which sank over a century ago, continues to captivate the public's imagination.

A recent social media frenzy emerged around a peculiar aspect of the infamous 1912 disaster.

Despite the tragic loss of over 1,500 lives, the ship's wreck has never yielded any human remains…

This intriguing detail surfaced in an unusual Reddit discussion…

A curious Reddit user posed the question, "Have any actual human remains ever been seen/recovered from the wreck since her discovery?"

The response was swift and clear: there have been no confirmed discoveries of human remains within the wreck.

James Cameron, the director of "Titanic" and a seasoned explorer of the wreck, having visited it 33 times and spent more time there than the ship's captain, shared his experience with The New York Times in 2012: "I've seen zero human remains."

He added, "We've seen clothing. We've seen pairs of shoes, which would strongly suggest there was a body there at one point. But we've never seen any human remains."

Users on Reddit have shared perspectives aligning with Cameron's observations. One user noted: "Closest thing Ballard had seen at the wreck were pairs of shoes that landed close together as if the body they belonged to decayed and that's all that's left."

"However, I've also heard that shoe cleaners would tie shoes together and leave them outside the staterooms overnight, so it might have just been a pair of those."

Another Reddit user recounted: "During one expedition, a leather raincoat was found on the ocean floor with two boots sticking out and a noticeable bulge in the middle of the coat. Out of respect, they didn't inspect further, but it suggests that under certain conditions, human remains might have been preserved to some extent."

While these accounts might sound like fodder for wild theories, the absence of human remains in the Titanic is attributed to a straightforward reason. The environmental conditions simply did not allow for the preservation of bodies over the many years the Titanic lay undiscovered at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Titanic explorer Robert Ballard shared insights with NPR on the challenges of finding remains at great ocean depths. He explained, "The issue you have to deal with is, at depth below about 3,000 feet [914 meters], you pass below what's called the calcium carbonate compensation depth."

"And the water in the deep sea is under-saturated in calcium carbonate, which is mostly, you know, what bones are made of."

"For example, on the Titanic and on the Bismarck, those ships are below the calcium carbonate compensation depth, so once the critters eat their flesh and expose the bones, the bones dissolve."

Echoing this explanation, a Redditor succinctly stated: "She was discovered in 1985. Any human remains, if there were any, would be long gone. Flesh doesn't last long 2.5 miles underwater."

Titanic Universe reports that experts believe a storm on the night of the disaster spread the bodies of those in life jackets over a wide area. This means they likely didn't end up near the wreckage.