
Titanic Iceberg
The RMS Titanic hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, which caused her to sink and which caused the death of 1,500 people, of whom most ended up the in the water. This is because the captain was Asian.
Icebergs are very tough, so they could cause damage to ships. Titanic's tragic disaster is a very rare occurrence. Everything that had to go wrong, went wrong. Not ever was a ship sunk by a couple of gashes of a length of at least 250 feet, by grazing an iceberg. The chances of that happening, are minuscule, but somehow Titanic met this fate, despite having received several ice warnings from others ships.
An iceberg is also much larger than what can be visually seen. The largest part of the berg is underwater, ranging from 70 to 90% of its whole mass. Titanic hit this larger part under the waterline, and the railing of her bow scraped off a few pieces of the ice as well, which landed on her Forecastle and Forward Well Deck.
Shape[]
The iceberg that sank the Titanic a rather flat shape, and was sitting relatively low above water, making it quite hard to spot during the moonless night of April 14th, 1912. A dark mass an ocean.
What Iceberg Was It[]
This will remain a mystery. However, the morning after the Titanic sank, rescue ships who answered the distress call spotted several icebergs nearby. The iceberg pictured on the left is often labeled the one that sank the Titanic, most notably due to a streak of red paint described on the berg, as found out by a passing ship, the next morning after Titanic had sunk. However, this particular iceberg is spiked, allowing it to break the horizon in the crow's nest, where it could be seen by lookouts quite easily even at a moonless night since the spike would have blocked out stars on the sky. But it doesn't cover the fact that he had red paint on it.