The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
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The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
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#2The arrogant engineering and delusional captain that ensured that the Titanic sank
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#3The arrogant engineering and delusional captain that ensured that the Titanic sank
Agreed, though this comment feels a bit unecessary to the point of the article? Anyway, interesting is that these two points
"Towson knew that icebergs posed an existential danger to the wooden hulls of nineteenth‐century ships. Steel hulls were invincible, he said, but that was based on assumption, not experience"
"Only 1 percent of northern hemisphere icebergs survive this desert zone, and finally, only one in several thousand would make it to 41 degrees north, the same latitude as New York City and directly in the path of transatlantic ships."
even challenge this a bit?
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#4The arrogant engineering and delusional captain that ensured that the Titanic sank
Agreed, though this comment feels a bit unecessary to the point of the article? Anyway, interesting is that these two points "Towson knew that icebergs posed an existential danger to the wooden hulls of nineteenth‐century ships. Steel hulls were invincible, he said, but that was based on assumption, not experience" "Only 1 percent of northern hemisphere icebergs survive this desert zone, and finally, only one in seve…
Just need 1 rock from the sky or 1 more stupid war like invasion of Taiwan will extinguish our home fire I guess.
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#5Really amazing article to read. Love the focus on the ice itself. I had no idea that is was so close to not existing
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#6Really amazing article to read. Love the focus on the ice itself. I had no idea that is was so close to not existing
It’s an excerpt from the author’s book:
https://www.danielstonebooks.com/
The Food Explorer was his first book?
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Explorer-Adventures-Globe-Trotti...
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#7Wow.
It had been observed and tracked, which seems surprising at first, but of course the Victorians and Edwardians would do that, and I would expect that activity and sharing of information goes back much further. A history would be fascinating.
While it had not been named, by pointing that out the article implies that others were. I wonder what Edwardian conventions for naming icebergs were. Current ones are rather bland: https://www.antarcticreport.com/articles/the-us-national-ice...
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#8"The ship rolled off a drydock in Northern Ireland in early 1912 and stopped to make pick-ups in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before turning west for New York."
Somehow the departure from Southampton got omitted so it looks like the Titanic didn't pick up any passengers from Britain.
Re: The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
#9The arrogant engineering and delusional captain that ensured that the Titanic sank
Agreed, though this comment feels a bit unecessary to the point of the article? Anyway, interesting is that these two points "Towson knew that icebergs posed an existential danger to the wooden hulls of nineteenth‐century ships. Steel hulls were invincible, he said, but that was based on assumption, not experience" "Only 1 percent of northern hemisphere icebergs survive this desert zone, and finally, only one in seve…
They would have made a good pair on Wall Street with all their supposed “knowledge” of statistics.
Re: The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
#10"The ship rolled off a drydock in Northern Ireland in early 1912 and stopped to make pick-ups in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before turning west for New York." Somehow the departure from Southampton got omitted so it looks like the Titanic didn't pick up any passengers from Britain.
She stands along
Southampton Dock
with her handkerchief
And her summer frock
That clings to her wet body in the rain