encyclopedia titanica

Just before midnight on April 14 1912 the Titanic a ship widely heralded as unsinkable struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Over the course of the next few hours a great tragedy unfolded as weather ice the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship In Night of the Titanic now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium experience the Titanics last day to discover what went wrong and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future