Tuesday, April 10, 2012

We all know or atleast have seen the movie titanic. Titanic hit an iceberg and killed 1500 people in North Atlantic. Researchers and scientists have spent years looking for the cause of that terrible accident since the ship was strong and well built. The blame has been put on sailors and flawed rivets but, after a century since the accident, argue that rare states of nature played a major role in the catastrophe. The first study says that Earth’s nearness to the moon and the sun resulted in record tides that help to explain why titanic experienced so much ice and the ugly iceberg. The second study from a titanic historian from Britain shows that the icy waters created ideal conditions for an unusual type of mirage that hid icebergs from lookouts and confused nearby ships, thus delaying rescue efforts for hours. “There were no heroes, no villains” says Mr. Maltin, Instead, there were a lot of human beings trying to do what they could in the situation as soon as they saw it. Scholars of the Titanic are uprising the news theories as more possible causes of the tragedy. They will help explain the mystery.
Studies show that the earth came close to the sun and moon in that winter, which enhanced their gravitational pull on the ocean producing tides. They also continue to suggest that high tides refloated masses of icebergs traditionally stuck along the coastlines of Labrador and Newfoundland and sent them into the North Atlantic shipping lanes. A mirage occurs when cold air bends light rays downward. The light reflected made it impossible for the Californian to aid the Titanic because it could not clearly see what was coming. The captain of the Califonian claims to have seen another boat not the Titanic through the mirages. There may be a mysterious boat since the captain did not stop because he did not see a huge liner (Titanic).

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