Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Lt West
Well etienne i admire your knowledge and logic on this matter you make a good debate
|
Thanks, but I have little merit, I work in the shipping industry. I have to know most of that stuff for work.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Lt West
and the titanic wouldnt hit a submereged part of the berg that berg in that region they were all broken off of the artic continent and were big but not that big.  |
There's a picture (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Titanic_iceberg.jpg) that is considered likely to be the iceberg Titanic hit - It was in the area at the right time, anyway. It's hard to guess the size of an iceberg from a picture, since we don't have any element to compare... But I'd guess it's average. You can tell it's old, tho, since its surface is relatively smooth.
No matter the size of the berg, 9/10 of it is underwater, simply because of the relative density of ice to salt water. So it could have it the submerged part - it probably did.
Smaller bergs are actually considered more dangerous, as they are harder to spot (And they don't reflect radar waves nearly as well)