what was the sea like when the Titanic hit the iceberg????
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The area of the North Atlantic where Titanic struck the iceberg was about 29° F which is several points below the freezing point for fresh water but just above freezing for salt sea water (28.4°F). Needless to say the water was as cold as it could possibly get while still in a liquid state. Perhaps most remarkable about the sea that night of the sinking was how incredibly clam the ocean was that night. It was said to resemble glass so calm the ocean current was that night…as if the moon’s tidal influence had suddenly vanished. Several of the surviving crew members commented on how the water was the calmest they’d ever witnessed in open sea like that. The calm waters are thought to be the product of a random weakness in the Gulf Stream at the same time that a large Arctic cold pushed through vis-a-vis the Labrador Current well into areas typically dictated by the warmer air from the south. It wasn’t so much a cold front in the traditional sense as it was the absence of the Gulf Stream which enabled the heavier, cold temperatures to basically, in a relatively calm sort of way occupy the spaces dominated by the Gulf Stream.
It was highly likely that this very unusual calmness helped to mask the ice dangers that were apparently all around and was part of a patch of both field ice and clusters of medium sized ice bergs that managed to get much further south than usual.
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