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19 – the number of icebergs that third class survivor Charles Dahl later claimed he had seen from lifeboat number 15, during the hours following the sinking. In an interview with the Chicago American newspaper Dahl criticised the speed at which Titanic had been travelling through the icefield, describing how Carpathia had needed to zigzag through bergs whilst collecting survivors.
50 – 100 feet – the estimated height of the iceberg above water, as recounted by Titanic survivors.
200 – 400 feet – the estimated length of the iceberg.
1 mile – the likely original length of the Titanic iceberg. The year it would have taken to move along the 40 mile long fjord would have left the iceberg at around a half of its original size.
40,000 – the approximate number of icebergs born each year along the coast of Greenland
1909 – the year in which the Titanic iceberg is believed to have been ‘born’.
1 – 2 – the likely number of icebergs that the Ilulissat ice-shelf would have produced in 1909.
1 – 4% – the proportion of those icebergs that survive to reach shipping waters. They initially float north along Greenland’s west coast before beginning their southward journey past the coastlines of Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland, before passing through the gulf stream into the Atlantic past. Most do not make it this far, either getting caught en route or finally melting in the warm waters of the gulf stream.
1 mile – the likely original length of the Titanic iceberg. The year it would have taken to move along the 40 mile long fjord would have left the iceberg at around a half of its original size.
300 – the approximate number of icebergs reaching the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic in April 1912, the largest number for around 50 years. The appearance of icebergs this far south can be highly erratic; for example in 2006 the International Ice Patrol (the monitoring team set up after the Titanic disaster) recorded no icebergs crossing south of latitude 48°N; in 2007 they recorded 324.
1/10th – the amount of an iceberg’s total mass that is typically visible above water.
15,000 years – the approximate age of the first snowflakes that made up the glacier that produced the Titanic iceberg.
2 years – the approximate time that the Titanic iceberg will have taken since its creation to reach the point of collision.
8 miles – the approximate distance the iceberg would have been traveling per day.
14 – the approximate number of days after the collision that the Titanic iceberg would probably have disappeared, melting in the gulf stream’s warmer water.