Canada – The disaster of the giant passenger ship “Titanic” received widespread attention, and its story was told cinematically and in various ways, allowing many to experience that first and last voyage and learn many details.
The epic, tragic end of the passenger ship “Titanic,” with its events, coincidences, and ambiguity, played a role in the widespread interest that made this disaster, which took place on April 15, 1912, an event that resonates in the media, introducing it to people far from its era.
A lot of information has been collected by experts and scientists from research and exploration of records and from diving operations to its wreckage in the depths of the sea, and it has been presented in various media outlets in various forms, but little is mentioned regarding the iceberg that happened to block the path in front of it, collided with it and sank in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. In an area located more than 600 kilometers southeast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
Experts say that every iceberg that breaks off and is led by water currents on a long journey is unique. Each iceberg, due to its huge mass, is immersed in water by 90 percent, and therefore only a small part of it comes to the surface.
With movement, the glacier melts every day, is exposed to fractures and splits, and changes its appearance over time. Scientists say 80 percent of all icebergs come from icy fjords on the west coast of Greenland, and it takes regarding three years for such icebergs to reach the Atlantic Ocean.
The mountain that caused the “Titanic” tragedy:
The iceberg that caused the Titanic to sink broke off sometime in 1909. At that time, the giant passenger ship was in the early stages of construction. The ice barrier from which that mountain separated, experts believe, appeared in the Ice Age 15,000 years ago.
The weight of this mountain is estimated at regarding 420 thousand tons, and it is considered the smallest of its kind. Its height reached more than 100 meters, which is two and a half times less than the length of the stricken ship.
After two years of sailing, the iceberg reached the Atlantic Ocean. Specifically to the place where the terrible disaster occurred, which claimed the lives of 1,517 people out of more than 2,200 passengers.
Unfortunately, this iceberg is one of the few huge ice masses that have swum from Greenland into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists assume that 30,000 icebergs emerge from Greenland every year, but few make such a long journey.
Many Internet users wondered why passengers during the disaster did not resort to climbing the iceberg. Experts answer, saying that the disaster occurred in the dark, and that the “Titanic” collided with the iceberg accidentally and not head-on, and therefore the passengers did not have a chance to swim to it. Moreover, experts point out that the passengers were in a state of panic that did not allow them to attempt such an attempt, not to mention that climbing onto a slippery object was almost impossible, especially in those circumstances.
What will happen to the iceberg?
After the collision, the Titanic split, and then sank, the iceberg survived and continued sailing. Experts believe that a warm current in the area drove him at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. Because of the warmth of the stream, the mountain gradually began to melt. Before it disappeared completely, its mass reached, according to some experts, the Franz Josef Archipelago in the Russian “Arkhangelsk” region. There he spent the winter being played by the waters of the beach. After that, it completely melted in 1913. That is, it lived for almost a year following the death of its victim, the Titanic.
Source: RT
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2024-04-23 13:03:44