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: 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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A Very Deceiving Night: The Californian Incident

One of the most extraordinary elements of the Titanic story is that she sank within sight of a rescue ship, the Californian, which ignored her distress signals.

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