The Iceberg that sunk the Titanic?

Question

Is it still out there!

Answer 1

No. The cold Labrador current may have brought the iceberg into the path of the Titanic, but the warmer North Atlantic current was already in the process of melting the iceberg by the time the Titanic struck. Left in the North Atlantic current, the iceberg would most likely have melted long before it neared the British Isles and made its way back to the colder Arctic waters. Remember that the Titanic was about 400 miles south of Newfoundland in mid April. The ocean current would have slowly floated that iceberg toward Norway perhaps half a year later.. and the water temperature of the North Atlantic during the summer months warms drastically enough that I doubt any iceberg would ever make it that far.

Answer 2

The iceberg was certainly not tracked. There were not effective "tracking devices" in existence then, and the iceberg drifted away before rescue ships arrived. This means that there was never any effective means of determining which iceberg it was. Given the approximate location of the Titanic, the iceberg would have been near the confluence of the south-drifting Labrador Current and the north-east bound Gulf Stream. Assuming that it became caught in the Gulf Stream current, the surrounding water would have been a few degrees warmer, hastening the melting process. As it drifted northeast, the iceberg would have eventually come to the split in the Gulf Stream and then flowed either north into the Arctic Ocean or south into a Canary Island current. If it were carried south by the Canary Island current, it would melt quite soon. (Icebergs along the English coast or south are unheard of.) If it continued north, it might have been caught eventually in the east Greenland current and been carried around the North Atlantic again. However, through all of this, the iceberg would have been losing ice. When it collided with the Titanic, the iceberg was already rather far south. If it somehow drifted back into a truly Arctic current, it might have resisted final melting for many years, but scientific studies put the effective outer life of an iceberg at about fifty years. If it continued to drift into warmer waters, it would have been gone in a few months. So there is no realistic possibility that the iceberg on which the Titanic sank is still in existence.

Answer 3

As 2 thirds of the iceberg is hidden under water, and only 1 third is seen above, there is every possibility that a fraction of the famous berg still remains somewhere, floating around.

There is no proof that the berg continued on to towards Norway or indeed headed somewhere else. You have to remember the most important aspect, and that is that the berg was formed with ANCIENT ice. This took millions of years to form it, and may take another million to totally annhialate it! Global Warming hasn't heated the Earth too much since it began, and we will definately not see the devastating effects of said warming in our life time.

Answer 4

Yeah! Same thing with Jaws, circling slowly just off a beach near where we live, just waiting for us to go for a swim or push the boat out. Deerduh, deerduh, deerduh....etc.

Anyway, I thought that most of the ice from the iceberk which was hit by the Titanic was consumed keeping the champers cool. Ain't that so?

Answer 5

Sadly NO.
Damage done to the iceberg in the fateful encounter with The Titanic ultimately caused the iceberg to sink as well.
There were no survivors.

Answer 6

It wasn't an iceberg but a giant robot ship camoflagued as an iceberg in a plot by the 1912 Republican party to instigate a war with Europe so the U.S. could have exclusive rights to the North West Passage to get all the oil.

Answer 7

As energy cannot be created or destroyed, the iceberg still exists but not in its original form.

Answer 8

no - it melted over the 6 months after the Titanic sank

Answer 9

Yes and they have begun the filming of "Titanic III: The Iceberg Strikes Back".

Answer 10

LOL. Yes it's still out there . It should have circled the earth 10 times by now...it's taking a break in sunny Bora-Bora. WTF....that sucker melted a long time ago....