![]() However, the iceberg the Norwegian Sun collided with did not cause much damage, but it resulted in several canceled cruises while the ship was being repaired. The iceberg was estimated to be 400 feet long and 100 feet high (above the ocean surface). When the Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14, 1912, the ship sank and killed over 1,500 people, according to news reports at the time. In the video, which has been circulating on social media, a man shouted: “Titanic 2.0!” And I was like, ‘Oh my God, we hit an iceberg,’” he said, describing the scene of the accident. Titanic (1997) Iceberg Collision HD - YouTube 0:00 / 4:35 Titanic (1997) Iceberg Collision HD RMSTitanic1912 5K subscribers Subscribe 2.7M views 5 years ago The iceberg collision scene from. And I’m like, ‘well, what’s going on?’ And then I had to start recording and I looked at the front of the ship and all I see is this… iceberg just turning over and coming down. “Then all sudden, boom, the whole ship shakes. He then asked him to record on his phone, which is how he caught the collision on camera. ![]() It was eventually cleared by authorities to travel at low speeds to Seattle.Ī family who was onboard the ship during the collision told CBS that the impact sounded like a door being slammed loudly.Ī passenger named Benjamin Talbott told CBS that he and his brother noticed the iceberg in the water just before the incident. The ship, which has the capacity to hold 2,000 passengers, was turned around to Juneau in Alaska where it underwent inspection. The British passenger liner, under the captaincy of Edward Smith, had roughly 2,200. Some have speculated that had it not tried to avoid the iceberg, and instead hit it head on and only damaging its foremost compartment it may not have sank. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Titanic famously sank on April 14, 1912, during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, US. Any further movement the Titanic made after that was purely down to the momentum she already had when she hit the iceberg - which, when you consider her sheer size and weight and the momentum that would entail, might well have meant she sailed a fair distance away from the iceberg she had struck. Even as a kid, the irony of The Titanic sinking on its maiden voyage after the boast of God himself couldnt sink her was not lost on me.
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