I was searching through the Encyclopedia Titanica forums for a thread that dealt specifically with what we know of the Titanic iceberg itself. Unfortunately, I haven't found one that focused entirely upon the anatomy of that iceberg.
There are posts/threads about the various photographs which claim potentially captured an image of the iceberg. There are some threads that mention the (supposed) eyewitness accounts.
I am particularly impressed with Samuel Halpern's short article entitled An Encounter in the Night:
Has anyone created an analysis using the evidence to guess what the iceberg most likely looked like? It would be nice to have one thread where we gathered all of the eyewitness claims and then used what we know about the collision itself.
- Who are the most credible eyewitnesses that could give any detail about the iceberg?
I would guess that the shape of the iceberg (at least in relation to the direction of Titanic) would indicate that she (the iceberg) was a likely bit more along the starboard side as it was seen in the horizon. I'm supposing this because there was a hard-to-starboard turn (in the attempt to avoid it).
It seems that the ice might have been shaped in such a way in which ice had to fall from the iceberg onto Titanic and, of course, had enough ice to damage the ship below the waterline along a specific set of collision paths.
Has Samuel Halpern or anyone else (here at Encyclopedia Titanica or elsewhere) written about this?
There are posts/threads about the various photographs which claim potentially captured an image of the iceberg. There are some threads that mention the (supposed) eyewitness accounts.
I am particularly impressed with Samuel Halpern's short article entitled An Encounter in the Night:
Has anyone created an analysis using the evidence to guess what the iceberg most likely looked like? It would be nice to have one thread where we gathered all of the eyewitness claims and then used what we know about the collision itself.
- Who are the most credible eyewitnesses that could give any detail about the iceberg?
I would guess that the shape of the iceberg (at least in relation to the direction of Titanic) would indicate that she (the iceberg) was a likely bit more along the starboard side as it was seen in the horizon. I'm supposing this because there was a hard-to-starboard turn (in the attempt to avoid it).
It seems that the ice might have been shaped in such a way in which ice had to fall from the iceberg onto Titanic and, of course, had enough ice to damage the ship below the waterline along a specific set of collision paths.
Has Samuel Halpern or anyone else (here at Encyclopedia Titanica or elsewhere) written about this?