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?
Continue readingA 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”
Continue readingA 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.
Continue readingA 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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