Every year ten thousand of small and large pieces of ice drop from the front of the glaciers and are pushed by the West Greenland Currentslowly to northern latitudes, far away from ship routes. The icebergs encountered in the North Atlantic originate mainly from the western coasts of Greenland, where ice streams deliver large quantities of ice in the fjords which lead to the Baffin Bay. This iceberg has in fact some remarkable similarities to the iceberg as described by survivors of the disaster (image in public domain).ĭespite the question if one of the photos shows really the culprit iceberg, the remarkably number of spotted icebergs emphasizes the notion that in 1912 a quite impressive number of these white titans reached such southern latitudes. Photography taken from board of the ship 'Birma' of the same iceberg as seen by the passengers of the 'Carpathia' - the first ship to approach the scene of the disaster and save the surviving passengers of the Titanic - and published at the time in the 'Daily Sketch'. An authentic photography of the iceberg that sank the 'unsinkable' Titanic was worth lot of money for the eager press.įig.3. Another iceberg, photographed five days later from board of the German ship 'Bremen', claimed to be the Titanic iceberg based on the vicinity to the location of the disaster and the description of the iceberg according to survivors (image in public domain). The passengers on the ship 'Prinz Adalbert', still unaware of the disaster of the previous night, reported later to have noted a 'red smear' at the waterline of the white iceberg (image in public domain).įig.2. One of the many icebergs photographed in the morning of April 15, 1912. However most surviving Titanic testimonies described later the infamous iceberg with a prominent peak or even two.įig.1.

The crew found debris and bodies floating in the vicinity and the captain assured that this was the only iceberg near the point of the collision. One famous photography taken from board of the cable ship ' Minia', one of the first ships to reach the area in search for debris and bodies, shows a tabular iceberg, an unusual shape for icebergs in the northern Atlantic. The tragedy of the 'unsinkable' Titanic - lost in the cold water of the Atlantic - became part of history and pop culture, but the story of the main culprit that caused the disaster is mostly forgotten and only vague descriptions and some photos exists of the supposed iceberg(s).

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