Where Did the Titanic Iceberg come From ?

WHERE DID THE TITANIC ICEBERG COME FROM ?

a beam of electric light here says the

darkness over the calm Waters of the

Atlantic Ocean

the Titanic is quietly making its way

through the waves its passengers asleep

when suddenly a monstrous white shape is

caught in the light beam the faithful

iceberg is about to Rend the side of the

legendary ship

April 14 1912 only two days before

someone will take a photo of a giant

Iceberg with a pretty unusual elliptical

shape it turns out that this Iceberg

most likely formed out of snow that fell

one hundred thousand years ago

researchers used computer modeling to

figure out its origin they used data

from 1912 and added some new information

about winds and ocean currents they

concluded that the iceberg was probably

a part of a small cluster of glaciers in

Southwest Greenland

these days it's possible to calculate

the roots of such icebergs in any given

year in the past so the infamous chunk

of ice was on its way from Greenland to

an area further south from Cornwall if

the ship had passed through that region

only two days later the iceberg would

have moved far away from the point where

they met

at first the weight of the most

well-known iceberg in the world was 75

million tons with time it started to

slowly melt away and when it sank the

Titanic its weight was only 1.5 million

tons

by the time of the Collision it had

probably been melting for months but it

was still a true monster when the

Titanic sank the iceberg was 400 feet

long and more than 100 feet of its

surface was above the water

some people believe it was a super moon

that caused the Titanic to sink that

night there was a rare lunar event it

hadn't happened for 1 400 years in

normal conditions the iceberg wouldn't

have traveled so far south without

melting and losing the largest part of

its mass

supermoon could have been the reason for

an unusually high tide that pulled the

iceberg away from the glacier way faster

than usual

there's a specific type of bacteria that

slowly consumes the remains of the

Titanic salt corrosion ocean currents

freezing temperatures plus this

rust-eating microorganism might consume

the entire wreckage

American actress Dorothy Gibson was

aboard the Titanic she survived and when

she arrived in New York she started

filming a movie called saved from the

Titanic almost right away the movie was

released only a month after the Titanic

sank and in the movie she even wore the

same shoes and clothes she had during

the actual disaster the movie was a big

success at that time but the only known

copy was destroyed in a fire

fourteen years before the Titanic sank a

novella called futility had been

published and it seemed to have

predicted the whole event the plot

centered around a fictional ship called

the Titan that sank during its Voyage

the Titan was almost the same size as

Titanic and they both went to the bottom

in April the reason was hitting an

iceberg too both the real and fictional

ships were described as Unsinkable and

both of them had the legally required

number of lifeboats which as it turned

out later were nowhere near enough

we've seen it in the movie but there

were some real-life love stories

happening on the Titanic too

thirteen couples even took a trip on the

Titanic as part of their honeymoon one

of the couples on Macy's department

store in New York once it became clear

the Titanic was rapidly sinking the

woman refused to go into a Lifeboat

without her husband but he didn't want

to join her while there were still women

and children who he thought had to go

first then his wife gave her coat to her

maid she insisted that the maid should

get into the Lifeboat and she wanted her

to be warm as for the woman herself she

decided to stay with her husband till

the end

some people believe Titanic sank because

of a mummy not an iceberg it all started

around 1000 BCE with a mysterious woman

who lived in Egypt in the city of

Thieves people knew little about her but

they called her a priestess her mommy

was put in a wooden sarcophagus and

covered with a large lid with the image

of her face and some mystical

inscriptions this place had been hidden

until the first half of the 19th century

when a group of locals accidentally came

across it they Disturbed her peace no

one knows how but the mummy disappeared

that day without a trace

a couple of decades later a group of

rich friends from England traveled to

Egypt and found the empty mummy casket

with the image of the Priestess whose

dark eyes seemed to be looking into the

void they decided to buy it but the

buyer disappeared the same night before

he even got the case all members of the

group had some accidents the casket

changed its location a couple of times

until it as some believe ended up on the

Titanic

it took more than 70 years for a robot

submarine to find the ruins of this

legendary ship the wreck lies nearly 13

000 feet under the surface of the

Atlantic Ocean split into two halves why

did the liner break apart no one knows

exactly some think it happened because

of the water that got inside when the

ship collided with the iceberg the

pressure was so powerful it separated

two parts of the vessel starting with

the ship's bottom structure others say

it was because of the hull rivets they

had a high concentration of slag or

smelting residue and that's something

that can cause the metal to split apart

at 11 40 PM the Titanic made contact

with an iceberg in the North Atlantic

Ocean many artifacts were found and

restored like parts of the ship jewelry

and dining plates to name a few it took

approximately three hours for the ship

to be completely submerged in the remote

icy water

the night was cold and very much alive

the orchestra was playing music as they

Enchanted the guests on board everyone

was excited to arrive in America it was

still considered an amazing feat for a

ship to cross the Atlantic back in 1912.

but as the day went ahead there was an

atmosphere of impending doom for the

captain and his crew no one else felt it

though it seemed to them nothing could

possibly go wrong and this would just be

another regular night to them the

Titanic was Unsinkable

the last thing on your mind when

thinking about the Titanic is the male

crew yes there were mailmen on board

delivering mail to America it may seem

like a pretty mundane occupation but

there was a very tough test to pass in

order to be accepted on board and only a

few top candidates would qualify and

those few would get shortlisted and

accepted John star March an American was

one of these mailmen earning between 1

000 to 1500 a year working on the

Titanic back in 1912 this was considered

to be a lot of money

they were not officially part of the

ship's crew since the mail crew was

placed near the third class quarters but

given their influence and resistance

they were eventually moved and given a

private dining area

March got this job since he needed the

money to support his family he found a

perfect way to earn some big bucks

working on a large ship traveling across

the ocean he was 51 at the time and came

from New Jersey

sadly he was on board when the ship sank

and didn't make it but they recovered a

pocket watch that gives us a little

insight into what happened that fateful

evening it's a gold case engraved with

filigree and had a caption saying it was

made by the Elgin National watch company

on the surface you'd think this would

just make a pretty cool antique sitting

over the fireplace but there is some

unusual details about it there are

obvious signs water seeped beneath the

glass and the black arms of the watch

indicate the time to be exactly 127. it

leaves us wondering why the clock

stopped at this precise hour what was

the owner doing

the mail clerks were operating a fully

functioning and efficient mail sorting

facility on board the Titanic this

wasn't something you'd come by often on

a cruise ship since typical ocean liners

use closed mailbags to transport the

mail from one port to another but the

male sorting facility on the Titanic

allowed passengers to send out postcards

whenever the ship docked in transit

zones in Ireland and France

according to reports people started

heading back to their rooms at around 11

pm but some of them were still hanging

around and enjoying their night the five

male men were celebrating a colleague's

birthday in their separate dining room

five minutes before impact crew members

spotted the iceberg and rang the bell

three times as a warning that something

was ahead of the ship they gave orders

for the Titanic to move left or as they

say In The Biz hard a starboard to make

the engines reverse it was not enough to

avoid the great impact

at 11 40 PM the Titanic struck the

iceberg and disaster erupted on the

inside not just water seeping in and

ultimately sinking the ship but panic

and Chaos among the passengers and crew

members Captain Smith reached the deck

and was informed that the Titanic had

hit an iceberg and at the same time the

mail room began filling with water we

know that the 880-foot ship was

completely submerged at around 2 20 a.m

with 706 survivors the time between the

impact and the sinking was really

eventful at midnight they started

getting the lifeboats ready for the

passengers to evacuate orders were given

for women and children to board the

safety boats with some crewmen to guide

and operate them

the problem was that the 20 safety boats

available could only host

1178 people out of the total of more

than 2 200 passengers on board March and

his colleagues began sorting out the

mail

there was chaos in directing and

ordering around with each second passing

icy cold water was filling the ship 15

minutes after midnight Captain Smith

ordered his crew members to send out a

distress signal

even though SOS was established earlier

than the Titanic many others used cqd

the CQ stands for General call and the D

is distressed the Frankfurt was too far

away to help even though it was one of

the first to respond even the Titanic's

sister ship the Olympic responded but it

also was too far away

at 12 20 am the Carpathia received the

Urgent Message and redirected from its

original course to help them out even

though they were 58 nautical miles away

you know SOS don't you three dots three

dashes and three more dots it's an easy

enough signal to tap out in Morse code

it means save our souls or save our ship

the crew of the legendary Titanic had

been desperately trying to send this

signal for two hours the night of April

14 1912.

there were other ships not too far from

the spot where the iceberg took down the

mighty Titan of the sea but the call for

help seemingly disappeared before it

could reach them

the passenger ship SS Mount Temple did

pick up a signal and try to respond but

the Titanic never got the answer so what

was silencing the ship's cries for help

some unknown Bermuda Triangle of the

North Atlantic

consider this eyewitnesses say the sky

was painted with a brilliant Aurora

Borealis that cold fateful night

beautiful yes but on that day the

Northern Lights may have sealed

Titanic's fate for good

you see the aurora borealis forms thanks

to geomagnetic storms sounds complicated

but those are basically fluctuations in

the Earth's magnetic sphere and what

causes those is the sun itself the

magnetic sphere is like a protective

bubble that surrounds our planet it

blocks harmful solar rays winds and

other Cosmic dangers from reaching us

without it life on our planet wouldn't

be possible Earth would look more like

Mars you also have it to thank for

compasses pointing North

experts know the Earth's magnetosphere

affects navigational equipment or

disrupts it which brings us back to the

Titanic recently a published weather

researcher named Mila zinkova proposed a

theory that solar flares which provoked

a geomagnetic storm could have played a

major role in the Titanic's untimely

demise

solar flares make themselves known on

Earth all the time some people are

especially sensitive to the Magnetic

storms they cause these unlucky folks

can feel weakness fatigue headaches and

even mood swings on usual days the

pressure is the same on both sides the

magnetosphere blocks all the bad stuff

and we're all happy but sometimes

explosions occur on the sun they can be

massive earth-sized these flares shoot

out a wave of charged particles that

collides with the magnetosphere at high

speeds our protective bubble then goes

on the defense it shrinks deforms and

pushes those particles toward the poles

enter those brilliant lights dancing

above the Titanic that night in the

north we know it as Aurora Borealis in

the South Aurora Australis or the

Southern Lights when the magnetosphere

pushes those solar and Cosmic particles

toward the poles they collide with

molecules of different gases that's why

you get the range of colors for example

oxygen can be green or red depending on

the distance and nitrogen is blue or

purple

what multiple people saw that night was

exactly this phenomenon including the

Second Officer from the rescue ship

Carpathia he wrote it down in the

logbook before getting the distress call

from the Titanic but I'm getting ahead

of myself auroras are a visible sign of

a geomagnetic storm now about

navigational equipment this applies to

satellite and radio frequency devices

remember they didn't have iPhones back

in the Titanic days so the average

person couldn't notice their gadgets

going haywire but navigational devices

and wireless Telegraph did exist and

were actively used

rewind back to the Middle Ages when

sailors noticed that on some days

compasses wigged out the arrows spun in

all directions and people back then had

no idea why it wasn't until the 18th

century when French scientists found out

that such problematic days occur at the

same time as black spots appearing on

the side solar flares the mystery was

solved now the Titanic had the most

advanced well-known radio equipment at

that time they tested it thoroughly to

make sure it worked for distances up to

2 000 miles away Titanics passed them

all on April 10 1912 the massive liner

left Southampton and set off for New

York the very next day the crew started

getting the first reports of drifting

icebergs and Ice Fields they put dots on

the map to Mark the coordinates and let

out a sigh of relief all the Troublesome

spots were north of the Titanic's

planned route but after a couple of days

the warnings were moving farther and

farther south encroaching on the

Majestic ship on April 14th Captain

Edward Smith decided to change course to

the south in hopes of bypassing the eyes

this ended up being a huge mistake

enter the magnetic storm if it was

throwing the navigation equipment off

even by a tiny error of half a degree

the captain could have been mistakenly

taking the ship right toward a cluster

of icebergs what's even worse the radio

operators ignored warnings coming from

other ships that or they simply forgot

to hand them over to the captain

the starboard side of the giant vessel

brushed up against the iceberg it was 11

40 PM when things started going wrong

this Iceberg caused enough damage for at

least five watertight compartments in

the hull to start filling with water

the crew immediately began a brief

investigation to see if they could do

anything and fix things they had no one

to rely on all alone in the darkness of

the cold night far away from the land

the North Atlantic Ocean around 400

miles south of Newfoundland Canada they

needed time to figure out how to bring

people to safety

they had some time true but not enough

if you watch the movie you know the ship

didn't plunge immediately after the icy

Doom had happened the whole process

lasted a good two hours and 40 minutes

but the situation was hard there were 2

200 people to take care of including

crew and passengers and things happening

on the ship were chaotic

the chief designer Thomas Andrews soon

realized they wouldn't be able to stay

afloat by midnight the entire crew had

begun preparing the lifeboats for launch

they had 20 boats with space for only

1178 people which was just a bit more

than 50 percent of the people on board

the order was to get women and children

to Safety First crewmen were there to

row and guide the boats

the scene over the next two hours

gradually started escalating the crew

members had a task to wake up passengers

and warn them something bad was

happening they wanted to place them into

a fleet of lifeboats as soon as possible

at 12 15 am some crew members sent out a

distress signal a steamship called

Frankfurt was among the first ones that

received the message and responded but

they were about 170 nautical miles away

some other ships also got the message

and offered their assistance but sadly

they were too far away as well

at 12 20 am the Canard liner Carpathia

got a distress signal from the Titanic

and changed its course right away they

were 58 miles away at the time and it

would take them more than three hours to

get there

20 minutes later the crew was lowering

the first Lifeboat it was carrying only

27 passengers although it had room for

65. many of the lifeboats that were

launched first were well below capacity

crew members were worried thinking The

Davids wouldn't be able to hold a fully

loaded Lifeboat and in the beginning

many passengers were just too afraid to

leave the ship they still thought

Titanic was Unsinkable and couldn't

imagine the scenario that was going to

happen one to two hours later

the crew was firing the first of eight

distress Rockets unsuccessful no one was

close enough to hell

by 1 20 am they lowered 10 lifeboats

number eight had only 28 people in it

one of the passengers on the number 10

was nine week old Melvina Dean she would

later become the last Survivor who lived

until 2009 and turned 97.

it was 2 A.M already three of the

collapsible Boats were the only

lifeboats that remained on the ship the

bow of the vessel had sunk low and had

tipped far under the surface people

around it could now clearly see Stern

propellers above the water

crew members were lowering collapsible

Lifeboat D from the roof of the

officer's quarters with over 20

passengers in it as the ship's bow went

under the water was washing collapsible

a from the deck those 20 people were

struggling because their boat was partly

filled with water

as crew members were trying to release

collapsible B it fell before they

righted it the water swept it off the

ship 30 passengers still managed to find

safety on the overturned Lifeboat

at 2 17 am the ship's Wireless operator

decided to transmit one last distress

call a minute later the light on the

ship finally went out Titanic and all

left on board plunged Into Darkness the

bow continued to sink and the stern was

Rising higher above the surface which

placed great strain on the midsection

horrible sounds were filling the night

Titanic this massive legendary ship so

many people placed their hopes in and

were excited about broke into two

between the third and fourth funnels

reports which speculate it took about

six minutes for the bow section to reach

the ocean bottom the stern settled back

in the water before it rose again into a

vertical position it remained in this

situation until it finally disappeared

into the ocean.

at 2 20 am the stern apparently retained

air inside and water pressure crushed it

as it went down the stern landed about

two thousand feet away from the bow

people consider the Titanic the fastest

ship in the world they thought it was

Unsinkable because four of its

compartments could be flooded and that

still wouldn't cause a critical loss of

buoyancy its life was problematic since

its beginning.

while the ship was leaving Port it moved

within a couple of feet of the steamer

New York it managed to safely pass by

which was a huge relief for all those

worried passengers masked on the ship's

deaths.