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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

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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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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.

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June 26, 2013 Titanic

Titanic: Minute by Minute

Titanic: Minute by Minute.

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