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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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
Continue readingDr. Andrew T. Young, one of the world’s leading atmospheric refraction experts, explains in relation to Titanic what Vikings called “sea hedges”
Continue readingThe 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 readingTitanic’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.
Continue readingOne 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.
Continue readingTitanic: Minute by Minute.
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