The above photograph of a Superior Mirage near the Isle of Skye in Northwest Scotland, with the Isle of Harris
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The hidden cause of the Titanic disaster
The hidden cause of the Titanic disaster. In this blog post Tim Maltin and Professor Andrew T. Young reveal the real cause of this tragedy, 104 years after the event – abnormal refraction.
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What caused the Titanic disaster?
What was the cause of the Titanic disaster – why did it collide with a huge, white iceberg on a completely clear, starlit night? Was it abnormal refraction?
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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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A Very Deceiving Night: Mirage
Titanic’s officers were well aware of abnormal refraction and the phenomenon of looming, as her Second Officer Charles Lightoller explained at the British Inquiry into the sinking.
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