Week 1 The Reason Titanic Hit the Iceberg

Actually i have seen the movie of Titanic for many many times and this movie has lauched long long time ago.In the movie , the story of Titanic real or not , actually we don't know what is the truth of the incident happended.There are various of story by the world expert but no one was willing to admit it.Humans touted that they had built an "unsinkable" ship. Nature, however, proved them wrong. It was a great tragedy that has lived on for nearly 100 years. Lets we do some research about it.

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 Main article: Sinking of the RMS Titanic

"Untergang der Titanic" by Willy Stöwer, 1912 (artist's conception)

At 11.40 pm ,  Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse, but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.

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• Discovery Channel

• A&E - "Death of a Dream"

• National Geographic  

1. There were 6 ice warnings received by Titanic on the day of the collision. They were all ignored by the wireless operator who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages.
2. On the night of the collision, because the moon was not out, and the water was so still, it was very difficult to see the iceberg. A less calm water would have caused breakers around the iceberg making it easier to see it from afar.
3. The iceberg that the Titanic struck was not a very big one. It did not even come up as high as the bridge of the ship.
4. The iceberg that the Titanic struck was unusual in such a way that it was not white like most others, but more of a clear look caused by continuous melting. The clear surface in effect reflected the dark night sky and water like a mirror, thereby making it a black object, almost impossible to see from a certain distance. The term for this kind of iceberg is " blackberg ", and is similar to the black ice found on cold icy roads.
5. An iceberg exposes only 1/10th of it's mass above water. With the other 9/10ths of it's mass below water, It makes them impossible to budge. Even with a force of a ship like the Titanic.

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News by Student News Net

• The weather on that fateful night and its role in the disaster has long been debated and discussed. Large ships always had crew members posted at night to look for icebergs. The night of April 14, 1912 was very dark since there was no moon but it was also brilliantly clear and calm with a lot of icebergs. A group of astronomers from Texas State University has been studying the Titanic tragedy in terms of astronomical conditions that night that were quite unique and may have played a critical role in the tragedy.
  
  Texas State physics faculty members Donald Olson and Russell Doescher, along with Roger Sinnott, senior contributing editor at Sky & Telescope magazine, published their findings in the April 2012 edition of Sky & Telescope magazine.
  
  "Of course, the ultimate cause of the accident was that the ship struck an iceberg. The Titanic failed to slow down, even after having received several wireless messages warning of ice ahead," Olson said in a press release. "They went full speed into a region with icebergs - that's really what sank the ship, but the lunar connection may explain how an unusually large number of icebergs got into the path of the Titanic."
  
  These scientists were inspired by the work of the late oceanographer Fergus J. Wood of San Diego who suggested that an unusually close approach by the moon on Jan. 4, 1912, may have caused abnormally high tides. The Texas State research team investigated how pronounced this effect may have been.
  
  What they found was that a once-in-many-lifetimes event occurred on that Jan. 4. The moon and sun had lined up in such a way their gravitational pulls enhanced each other, an effect well-known as a "spring tide." The moon's perigee - closest approach to Earth - proved to be its closest in 1,400 years, and came within six minutes of a full moon. On top of that, the Earth's perihelion - closest approach to the sun - happened the day before. In astronomical terms, the odds of all these variables lining up in just the way they did were, well, astronomical, according to information from Texas Tech.
  
  "It was the closest approach of the moon to the Earth in more than 1,400 years, and this configuration maximized the moon's tide-raising forces on Earth's oceans. That's remarkable," Olson said in a press release.
  
  Initially, the researchers looked to see if the enhanced tides caused increased glacial calving in Greenland, where most icebergs in that part of the Atlantic originated. They quickly realized that to reach the shipping lanes by April when the Titanic sank, any icebergs breaking off the Greenland glaciers in Jan. 1912 would have to move unusually fast and against prevailing currents.
  
  But the ice field in the area the Titanic sank was so thick with icebergs responding rescue ships were forced to slow down. Icebergs were so numerous, in fact, that the shipping lanes were moved many miles to the south for the duration of the 1912 season. 

The Texas State researchers explain that as Greenland icebergs travel southward, many become stuck in the shallow waters off the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally, icebergs remain in place and cannot resume moving southward until they've melted enough to refloat or a high enough tide frees them. A single iceberg can become stuck multiple times on its journey southward, a process that can take several years. But the unusually high tide in Jan. 1912 would have been enough to dislodge many of those icebergs and move them back into the southbound ocean currents, where they would have just enough time to reach the shipping lanes for that fateful encounter with the Titanic.

The Picture of IceBerg Castle 

AN AWESOME ICE BEAUTY with an ELEMENT of DANGER.

Conclusion

After i done all the research , i feel that it’s true an iceberg didn't sink the Titanic…the Titanic sank from the water that flooded it after the Titanic hit the iceberg!! It’s not just a matter of semantics, it’s a simple example of what a paradign shift is. With the Sun, Planets and stars revolved around the Earth and went out of it’s way to persecute anyone who said otherwise despite having empirical data stating the obvious, we were in desperate need of a large paradigm shift, a paradigm shift that I’m glad to report we now have successfully accomplished. Just ask anyone you know and they’ll tell you the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Well,There was a lot of warnings about being an Iceberg ahead of  the Titanic but I didn’t listen to them because I new that the Titanic was going to be fine but when I looked through my side window  I saw that there was a 300 foot cut on the side of the ship. All the  people didn’t mind they just saw the ice and began to play a snowball fight. The people who were on the card games they didn’t mind either they just kept playing. The people in the first class had to pay for a ticket that coasted back then 4,700 dollars which today it would coast  50,000 dollars. As soon as the Titanic hit the iceberg and people felt like the Titanic was drawing all the people fell into the water and it looked like if a snake rattling its tell when the Titanic was  going into the water all the people were sliding down as fast as a roller coaster.All the people were jumping off the Titanic just to see if they can survive but some didn’t.