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Where did the iceberg that drowned the Titanic end up?

 


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the iceberg that drowned the Titanic end up?


The giant passenger ship "Titanic" disaster received wide attention, and its story was told cinematically and by various means, allowing many to live through that first and last voyage and learn a lot of details.


The tragic and epic end of the "Titanic" passenger ship, with its events, coincidences and ambiguity, played a role in the widespread attention that made this catastrophe of April 15, 1912, an event frequent in the media, known as people far from its reign.


Much information gathered by experts and scientists from research and excavation of records and from dives into their deep sea debris and presented in various forms in the media, not very little about the iceberg that happens to be in front of it, and cutting off the road to hit it and plunging into the frozen northern waters of the Atlantic Ocean. in an area more than 600 kilometres southeast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland.


Experts say that each iceberg is interrupted and driven by water currents on a long, unique journey. Each iceberg because of its huge mass, sinks 90 percent into the water, and therefore does not appear on the surface to a small part.


With movement the iceberg melts every day, is broken and divided and its appearance changes with time. Scientists say 80 percent of all icebergs come from icy straits on Greenland's west coast, and it takes about three years for such mountains to reach the Atlantic Ocean.


The mountain that caused the Titanic tragedy:


The iceberg that caused the sinking of the Titanic was separated sometime in 1909. At that time the giant passenger ship was at the beginning of construction phases. The ice barrier from which that mountain was separated, according to experts, appeared in the Ice Age 15,000 years ago.


That mountain weighs an estimated 420 thousand tons, the smallest of its kind. It was more than 100 meters high, which is two and a half times less than the length of the stricken ship.


After two years of sailing, the iceberg reached the Atlantic Ocean. specifically to the place where the terrible disaster that killed 1,517 of the more than 2,200 passengers occurred.



Unfortunately, this iceberg is one of the few huge glaciers to swim from Greenland to the waters of the Atlantic neutral. Scientists assume that Greenland exits 30,000 icebergs each year, but few cut such a long journey.


Many Internet pioneers wondered why during the disaster passengers did not resort to climbing the iceberg. Experts answer that the disaster occurred in the dark, that Titanic accidentally hit the iceberg rather than face-to-face, and therefore passengers did not have a chance to swim to it. Furthermore, experts point out that passengers were in a state of panic that would not allow them to make such an attempt, let alone that boarding a slippery object is almost impossible, especially in those circumstances.


What is the fate of the iceberg?


After the collision and the fission of the Titanic and then the sinking of the Titanic, the mass of the iceberg survived and continued to sail. Experts believe that a warm stream in the area led it at 10 kilometers per hour. Because of the warmth of the current, the mountain is gradually melting. Before it disappeared completely, according to some experts, its mass reached the archipelago of Franz Joseph in the Russian "Archangelsk" region. There's a winter's been manipulated by beach water. After that it completely melted in 1913. That is, he lived almost a year after the death of his victim, Titanic.


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