Did an Optical Illusion Doom the Titanic?
The Titanic May Have Struck an Iceberg and Sank Helplessly Because of a Strange Atmosphere-Caused Optical Illusion, a New Book Argues. British Historian Tim...
The Titanic may have struck an iceberg and sank helplessly because of a strange atmosphere-caused optical illusion, a new book argues. British historian Tim Maltin says super refraction, an extraordinary bending of light that causes mirages, prevented the Titanic's crew from seeing the fateful iceberg.
How did they find out the Titanic was sinking?
As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank. ... In 1985, when oceanographer Robert Ballard, after years of searching, finally located the ship's remains 2.5 miles down on the ocean bottom, he discovered that it had, in fact, broken in two on the surface before sinking.
Who was most to blame for the Titanic sinking?
From the beginning, some blamed the Titanic's skipper, Captain E.J. Smith, for sailing the massive ship at such a high speed (22 knots) through the iceberg-heavy waters of the North Atlantic. Some believed Smith was trying to better the crossing time of Titanic's White Star sister ship, the Olympic.
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