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March 9, 2021 Uncategorized

Why ‘Superior Mirage’ images are echoes of Titanic tragedy

The above photograph of a Superior Mirage near the Isle of Skye in Northwest Scotland, with the Isle of Harris

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January 5, 2021 Titanic

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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December 1, 2014 Titanic

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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January 22, 2014 Titanic

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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November 20, 2013 Titanic

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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September 18, 2013 Titanic

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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