Godspeed Titanic: The Fateful Night

The area of the North Atlantic that the Titanic traveled was in the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada (often called Iceberg Alley.) This area had long been known as a dangerous path for ships due to the prevalence of ice. According to the International Ice Patrol, “Between 1882 and 1890, 14 vessels were lost and 40 seriously damaged due to ice. According to reports from the lookouts and other surviving crew following the disaster, there was no moon to reflect light off the iceberg, no wind to crash waves against the ice, and the color of the ice blended in with the dark sky of the horizon.  These conditions led to the lookouts not seeing the iceberg until it was too late to navigate out of its path. The events that followed throughout the rest of the evening left the world changed forever. The ship itself was about the people that inhabited it and gave the ship its spirit and life. The ship lost that spirit and life when the people aboard it left its decks or perished.