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March 26, 2014 Titanic

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

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”

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.

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.

July 24, 2013 Titanic

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.

June 26, 2013 Titanic

Titanic: Minute by Minute

Titanic: Minute by Minute.

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