Captain Edward John Smith, Commander of Titanicġ5,000 years – the approximate age of the first snowflakes that made up the glacier that produced the Titanic iceberg.Ģ years – the approximate time that the Titanic iceberg will have taken since its creation to reach the point of collision.Ĩ miles – the approximate distance the iceberg would have been traveling per day. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away. The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. We do not care anything for the heaviest storms in these big ships. The appearance of icebergs this far south can be highly erratic for example in 2006 the International Ice Patrol (the monitoring team set up after the Titanic disaster) recorded no icebergs crossing south of latitude 48°N in 2007 they recorded 324.ġ/10th – the amount of an iceberg’s total mass that is typically visible above water. The year it would have taken to move along the 40 mile long fjord would have left the iceberg at around a half of its original size.ġ,000,000,000 tons – the amount of sea water displaced by the iceberg at its original size (one billion tons!).Ībove: A view of the iceberg believed to be the one the Titanic hit, taken from aboard the Carpathia.ģ00 – the approximate number of icebergs reaching the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic in April 1912, the largest number for around 50 years. Most do not make it this far, either getting caught en route or finally melting in the warm waters of the gulf stream.ġ mile – the likely original length of the Titanic iceberg. They initially float north along Greenland’s west coast before beginning their southward journey past the coastlines of Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland, before passing through the gulf stream into the Atlantic past. At it’s mouth, the seaward ice wall of Ilulissat is around 6 kilometres wide and rises 80 metres above sea level.ġ909 – the year in which the Titanic iceberg is believed to have been ‘born’.ġ – 2 – the likely number of icebergs that the Ilulissat ice-shelf would have produced in 1909.ġ – 4% – the proportion of those icebergs that survive to reach shipping waters. According to experts the Ilulissat ice shelf on the west coast of Greenland is now believed to be the most likely place from which the Titanic iceberg originated.
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