Spring Break HW 3

I read the article What Really Happened to the Titanic? on scholastic.com. The R.M.S. Titanic was the prized ship that crashed on it's way to New York and many were killed. The article brang up a scientific theory on how it exactly came to sink, which went off the usual theory of how the ship hit the iceberg. It brang up a theory that involved illusions and water columns of pressure. I agree with some aspects of this article and i don't agree with others.

I agree with the aspect of the article that helped cause the sinking called thermal inversion. "The Titanic, he says, sailed from warm Gulf Stream waters into the freezing Labrador Current. There, the air column was cooling from the bottom up, creating layers of cold air below layers of warmer air." (What Really Happened to the Titanic, by Jennifer Walters, scholastic.com) This often makes a haze which means they couldn't have really have saw the iceberg before it was to late.


I disagree with the aspect that there was another ship and with the thermal inversion saw a smaller ship, also when the ship sent Morse lamp they couldn't see it. In other information it was shown that it would take many hours for another ship to come help. It seems odd that just because the ship was not huge the other ship wouldn't even try to save anyone. In other information they often say that the ship Californian came later and didn't see them then. This aspects makes me doubt this theory.


There will always be other theories about the famous sinking. Many will say they hit an iceberg, others may say other things like there was a mirage. But no doubt the prized R.M.S. Titanic sunk killing 100's of men, women and children, unprepared with now enough life boats. We will always remember the great tragedy and the untimely deaths to the  civilians aboard. Through all the theories about the sinking that will always be a fact.