Log books and Greenwich Mean Noon Observations from more than 75 ships which passed through the area where the Titanic sank give thermal inversion evidence.
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Category: Titanic
A Very Deceiving Night: “A pretty sharp drop”
The sudden temperature change as the Titanic crossed from the warm waters of the Gulf Stream into the much colder waters of the Labrador Current.
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A Very Deceiving Night: Crash Site Investigation
Building a 3D model of the thermal geography of Titanic’s crash site to check temperature and air density profile for any abnormality.
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A Very Deceiving Night: “It was a dark mass that came through the haze”
Titanic’s lookouts described a haze around the horizon, despite the remarkable clarity of the night, and testified the iceberg appeared at the last moment
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A Very Deceiving Night: Sea Hedges
Dr. Andrew T. Young, one of the world’s leading atmospheric refraction experts, explains in relation to Titanic what Vikings called “sea hedges”
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A Very Deceiving Night: The Flying Dutchman
The myth of The Flying Dutchman has its basis in miraging and mirages, in a similar way to the effect of thermal inversion the night Titanic sank.
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