{"id":719,"date":"2019-11-02T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=719"},"modified":"2019-11-02T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T05:09:08","slug":"what-glacial-calving-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"What? Glacial Calving 100 Years Ago."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/titanicfacts.net\/titanic-iceberg\/\">https:\/\/titanicfacts.net\/titanic-iceberg\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fact\">19<\/span> \u2013 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 <a title=\"Carpathia\" href=\"https:\/\/titanicfacts.net\/carpathia\/\">Carpathia<\/a> had needed to zigzag through bergs whilst collecting survivors.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fact\">50 \u2013 100 feet<\/span> \u2013 the estimated height of the iceberg above water, as recounted by <a title=\"Titanic survivors\" href=\"https:\/\/titanicfacts.net\/titanic-survivors\/\">Titanic survivors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fact\">200 \u2013 400 feet<\/span> \u2013 the estimated length of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fact\">1 mile<\/span> \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fact\">40,000<\/span> \u2013 the approximate number of icebergs born each year along the coast of Greenland<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fact\">300<\/span> \u2013 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<\/p>\n<p>in 2006 the International Ice Patrol (the monitoring team set up after the Titanic disaster)<\/p>\n<p>recorded no icebergs crossing south of latitude 48\u00b0N;<\/p>\n<p>in 2007 they recorded 324.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/titanicfacts.net\/titanic-iceberg\/ 19 \u2013 the number of icebergs that third class survivor Charles Dahl later claimed he had seen from lifeboat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[359,703,705,704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}