s claim the risk of hitting an iceberg is significant, despite the advent of technology to help captains prevent a collision. While there are no globally-collated figures for iceberg strikes, they happen every year.The shrinking of the Arctic sea ice created the possibility for increased commercial travel as well as more shipping routes. Natural resources are also causing ships to spend more time in the iceberg-infested waters around Greenland and the Arctic.Each year thousands of pieces break off from the front of the glaciers but only the largest will one or three years later reach the North Atlantic.Currents then push it along the coast of Greenland southwards towards the Canadian coast where off the coast of Newfoundland the iceberg gets captured by the ‘warm’ Gulf Stream and pushed in south-western direction. However, only one per cent of all icebergs reach such southern latitudes.The Titanic only had visual sightings and a shipboard radio to guide it through iceberg-infested waters.Today, captains rely on data from real-time satellite imagery provided by missions such as the European Space Agency's Polar View.But the risk of hitting an iceberg is still very real and while there areno globally-collated figures for iceberg strikes,Nike Air Max 90 UK, they happen every year. Photograph showing the iceberg which sank the Titanic. The Titanic only had visual sightings and a shipboard radio to guide it through iceberg-infested waters The iceberg which sank the Titanic was spotted just before midnight on April 14, 1912 but despite quick action to slow the ship it wasn?t enough and the ship sank in just two and a half hours For the northern hemisphere, from 1980 to 2005, there were 57 incidents involving icebergs giving a rate of 2.3 per year, according to Brian Hill,Air Max 2014 Womens Blue Green Orange UK, of the Institute for Ocean Technology.The shrinking of the Arctic sea ice created the possibility for increased commercial travel as well as more shipping routes. Natural resources are also causing ships to spend more time in the iceberg-infested waters around Greenland and the Arctic.‘As polar ice sheets are increasingly losing mass as well, the iceberg risk is likely to increase in the future, rather than decline,Nike Air Max 90 EM Mens,’ said Professor Bigg.ICEBERG THAT HIT THE TITANIC WAS 'SMALL' AND ONLY MADE A 'SLIGHT JAR' Charles Lightoller The most senior officer of the Titanic to survive the ship's sinking downplayed the cause of the disaster as a 'small low-lying iceberg' in an insurance claim form which has come up for sale. In the unique document, second officer Charles Lightoller wrote that the ship made a 'slight jar' before starting to go down. He also tried to excuse the behaviour of staff who failed to spot the iceberg, denying that they were guilty of 'negligence' or being insufficiently vigilant. Lightoller's insurance claim is believed to have been an attempt to minimise the responsibility of the ship's owner, White Star Line, in order to secure the full payout of $5 million (￡3 million).The historic document detailing his account of the disaster is being sold at auction by Henry Aldridge and Sons of Devizes, Wiltshire, with a pre-sale estimate of ￡12,000In the testimony made to Robinson Leech, the notary public for New York,Nike Air Max 2014 Mens White Grey, on April 19,Air Max 2014 Mens Fluorescent Green, Lightoller explained that 'all went well' until 11.45pm on April 14 when the ship struck an iceberg. He stated: 'The captain was on and off the bridge throughout the watch. A sharp lookout was kept from the crow's nest. 'The ship was on course South 86 degrees West true when the lookouts reported ice dead ahead.'The first officer immediately starboarded the helm reversed the engines full speed and closed all watertight doors. 'The ship swung to port but struck a 'growler' or small low-lying iceberg with the bluff of her starboard bow, making a comparatively slight jar with a grinding sound.' He went to explain that 'all hands were called on deck' and the lifeboats were filled with women and children. 2600763
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