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"We know almost everything about the Titanic itself. And how epically it sank, and how it broke in half, and many can even remember DiCaprio's last phrase verbatim.
But what happened to the culprit of the tragedy? Where did he go after the collision and how long did he live? It turned out that this is a rather curious story, leading all the way to Russia.
First, you need to understand what kind of iceberg it was. Its mass was 420,000 tons, which seems like a pretty decent mountain of ice
How much bigger do you think this block was than the Titanic itself? Personally, when I watched the film, I thought that the iceberg and the steamship were related approximately like this:
In fact, the "titanic iceberg" was a crumb in the world of icebergs. Its highest point barely reached the upper decks of the steamship.
To be precise, the height The iceberg was only 100 meters long. This is 2.5 times less than the length of the Titanic. And almost the entire mass of ice, as it happens, was hidden under water.
This baby was born 3-4 thousand years ago in the glaciers of Greenland. At that time, of course, there was no sign of any steamships.
The pharaohs were building their pyramids in batches, the last mammoth was dying in Chukotka, there were still several thousand years left before the discovery of America, and our cold-blooded killer was already slowly crawling from the glacier to the sea.
Around June 1910, it broke off from the ice shell and set off on a free journey across the Arctic seas. It took it more than two years to reach the site of the collision.
It is curious that when this ice block fell into the water, the Titanic was still being built. And when the ship set off on that fateful voyage, the iceberg had already covered 99.9% of its distance. In short, it was waiting for the Titanic at the designated place, to which it had been heading for several thousand years.
It is also surprising that Greenland produces up to 30,000 icebergs a year, but only a few of them reach the latitudes where the hero of our story sailed...
And so, the collision happened. It must be said that the iceberg survived it calmly. The Titanic lived only a few hours, but the iceberg floated on.
According to mathematical calculations, most likely this iceberg was picked up by the warm Gulf Stream.
This current is warm and very fast (up to 10 km/h). So the iceberg began to melt rapidly and, nevertheless, it was enough to get – where do you think?
To the Arkhangelsk region of Russia. Namely, to Franz Josef Land. This is where the Gulf Stream carries most icebergs.
There the iceberg washed ashore, where it spent the winter, and in the summer of 1913 it finally melted, having outlived the Titanic by more than 1 year. Such is the difficult and complicated fate, worthy of another film. Nature has once again shown us our place."
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll
It was not really the size of the iceberg that was the issue.
The Titanic was riveted together, not welded.
And the quality of the rivets and the materials used in her construction played a role in the ship's structural failure after the collision with the iceberg.
With the design of the ship's watertight compartments also contributing to her demise.
Then there was the fact that she also had insufficient lifeboats.
originally posted by: ADVISOR
a reply to: andy06shake
It's more than that, metallurgical studies showed that the Irish steel was inferior and was not high grade.
There's so many factors that were working against the Titanic, that it was a miracle it floated at all.
Also I heard that Russian spy was code named Trump.
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19 – the number of icebergs that third class survivor Charles Dahl later claimed he had seen from lifeboat number 15, during the hours following the sinking. In an interview with the Chicago American newspaper Dahl criticised the speed at which Titanic had been travelling through the icefield, describing how Carpathia had needed to zigzag through bergs whilst collecting survivors.
14 – the approximate number of days after the collision that the Titanic iceberg would probably have disappeared, melting in the gulf stream’s warmer water.
The iceberg was huge, towering between 50 to 100 feet above the water’s surface, and with an estimated length of 200 to 400 feet, according to witness accounts from Titanic survivors. Five days after the sinking, the first photograph of this notorious iceberg emerged, captured by a seaman named Rehorek, sailing aboard the MS Bremen.
The journey of the Titanic iceberg from its creation to the collision is estimated to have taken around two years. Incredibly, the first snowflakes that contributed to its formation were approximately 15,000 years old. Once formed and cast adrift, the iceberg would have travelled approximately eight miles per day.
Then, approximately two weeks after its fateful collision with the Titanic, the iceberg would have likely disappeared, simply melting in the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream.
Then, approximately two weeks after its fateful collision with the Titanic, the iceberg would have likely disappeared, simply melting in the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream.
The frozen water in these glaciers is slowly forced further westward toward the sea. When they finally reach the coast of the Arctic Ocean, the lapping tides break off chunks of the ice, and icebergs are calved from the glacier, some 30 centuries after their source water was first deposited. The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey as a rough contemporary of King Tutankhamun, entire civilizations rising and falling while it made its slow march to infamy.
But once all that's done, the iceberg's life was a short one. We know that because the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, rather than the Arctic, which means the currents must have taken it far south of where it was calved. Starting on the Greenland coast, it would have moved from Baffin Bay to the Davis Strait and then onto the Labrador Sea and, at last, the Atlantic.