Does the iceberg that the RMS Titanic ran into still exist today?
The question came to mind when I was watching the movie Titanic. Is there any evedince of it existing today?
The question came to mind when I was watching the movie Titanic. Is there any evedince of it existing today?
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The berg that sank the Titanic, being as far south as it was, would have melted many, many years ago. Some of the big tabular bergs in the South Atlantic and Pacific can stay around for years but the one that the Titanic met would have been on a southerly drift and probably was gone the same year that the Titanic met its fate.
A few days after the Titanic's loss a ship, the name escapes me, sighted a berg south of the position that the Titanic sank and noted a red smear, as might be made by below the waterline paint, along its base. While there was no way of knowing for sure that this one was the culprit it seems like a good possibility. If it was the one that the Titanic struck then the fact that the paint smear was now visible above the waterline is also an indication of how quickly it was melting. A picture was taken of the berg and I recall seeing it in the illustrated version of Walter Lord's book "A Night to Remember".
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Does the iceberg that the RMS Titanic ran into still exist today?
The question came to mind when I was watching the movie Titanic. Is there any evedince of it existing today?
Jean-Paul J
Indirectly, yes it may. The RMS Titanic's "Iceberg", was thought to have been seen a few days after the accident, because it had a large streak of red paint on it. Hoever this was more than 94 years ago! So obviously, it is very likely that the ice melted, its remannents evaporated, they landed as snow, rain or hail somewhere in the world, and it is possible, but VERY unlikely, that the Iceberg that "killed" the RMS Titanic, still exists to day.
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Paul S
No. Icebergs are formed when ice chunks fall off of existing glaciers. They float in the ocean until they get to warmer water and then they melt. Icebergs are new every year. The iceberg that sank the Titanic was so large because of its position in the North Atlantic Ocean(just south of NewFoundland) and because of the early time of year (April 14, 1912), but it had melted within a few weeks of the tradjedy.