Unusual atmospheric conditions led to a most historic end for the star-crossed White Star liner.
Her story puts many Greek tragedies to shame.
"The weather, the night the Titanic sank, was absolutely extraordinary," he said. "It was one of the calmest nights and clearest nights in history." "This created what we call a thermal inversion, where you have much warmer air above very cold air, among the icebergs," he said. "The problem is that the molecules themselves in the air actually had the effect of scattering light," Maltin said.
The Titanic fired rockets into the air to signal their distress to nearby ships, but due to the mirage "lifting" the horizon upward, the rockets were too small to be seen."There was a rescue ship called the Californian, only about 10 miles away from where Titanic sank," Maltin said.
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