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| Weatherwatch: did 'sea smoke' obscure the Titanic iceberg? | Weatherwatch: did 'sea smoke' obscure the Titanic iceberg? |
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| 14 April, 1912: the night was cold and clear and Violet Jessop, a nurse on board the Titanic, described “little wisps of mist like tiny fairies that wafted gently inboard from the sea”. Up in the crow’s nest the two lookouts, Reginald Lee and Frederick Fleet, also noticed the haze. Ten minutes later the call went out: “Iceberg! Right ahead...” and the fate of the doomed liner was sealed. | 14 April, 1912: the night was cold and clear and Violet Jessop, a nurse on board the Titanic, described “little wisps of mist like tiny fairies that wafted gently inboard from the sea”. Up in the crow’s nest the two lookouts, Reginald Lee and Frederick Fleet, also noticed the haze. Ten minutes later the call went out: “Iceberg! Right ahead...” and the fate of the doomed liner was sealed. |
| For more than a century the haze has remained unexplained, with some assuming it was a mirage and others dismissing it as imaginary. Arthur Rostron, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, reported that he “never saw a clearer night”. Now a new study, published in the journal Weather, suggests that the haze was probably a localised phenomenon known as “sea smoke”. | For more than a century the haze has remained unexplained, with some assuming it was a mirage and others dismissing it as imaginary. Arthur Rostron, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, reported that he “never saw a clearer night”. Now a new study, published in the journal Weather, suggests that the haze was probably a localised phenomenon known as “sea smoke”. |
| The area where the Titanic sank was within the cold-water tongue of the Labrador Current. This shape-shifting current entwines with the warm Gulf Stream, creating rapid changes in sea temperature over short distances. A finger of warm water overlain by colder air can produce a relatively common “steaming” effect, known as sea smoke. That night the conditions were primed. It is cold comfort now, but haze or no haze, the iceberg most likely would not have been spotted any sooner. | The area where the Titanic sank was within the cold-water tongue of the Labrador Current. This shape-shifting current entwines with the warm Gulf Stream, creating rapid changes in sea temperature over short distances. A finger of warm water overlain by colder air can produce a relatively common “steaming” effect, known as sea smoke. That night the conditions were primed. It is cold comfort now, but haze or no haze, the iceberg most likely would not have been spotted any sooner. |
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