![]() (Titanic Historical Society, Inc, Indian Orchard MA.) Photo of what many believe is the iceberg that sank the Titanic taken by Lawrence Stoudenmire from the rescue ship Carpathia. One of those passengers included the man who took the photograph of what many believe is the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Many first- and second-class travelers on the Carpathia, including his own family, were trying to escape the poor spring to travel to warmer climates and begin holidays abroad. had been a hard one and spring weather had been late to arrive. Hurd later recalled how the winter in the U.S. He was one of the first journalists to interview Titanic survivors and Carpathia passengers about the disaster, scooping many of the top newspapers of the day. Louis Dispatch reporter Carlos Hurd was on board the Carpathia with his family. The extremely frigid waters caused hypothermia among the mass of people on the Titanic, and most died within minutes after plunging into the sea. The water temperature in the Titanic's vicinity at the time of the collision late in the evening of the 14th was said to be in the upper 20s. This supports the idea that the Titanic passed from relatively warm Gulf Stream waters to the colder influence of the Labrador Current." In an article for Scientific American, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski wrote, "Observations on board Titanic indicated a 10-degree Fahrenheit drop in sea surface temperatures (from the lower 40s to the lower 30s) in two hours during the early evening of the 14th. This April 10, 1912, file photo shows the ocean liner RMS Titanic as it leaves Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage. Off to the starboard was a white area of ice plain, from whose even surface rose mammoth forts, castles and pyramids of solid ice." ![]() May Birkhead, who was on deck as the ship arrived, was quoted in many reports as having said that Carpathia passengers were "greeted with a most beautiful sight of icebergs on every side - some of much greater dimensions than the ship, and then some baby ones - all beautiful white in the calm sea and glittering sun, a most impressive view."Īnother passenger, Wallace Bradford, recalled that it was a "glorious, clear morning and a quiet sea. The Carpathia reached the scene at 5:30 a.m., three hours after the Titanic went down with 1,503 passengers and crew. Carpathia passenger Howard Chapin later noted that the night was "bitterly cold." The captain of the Carpathia, Arthur Rostron, ordered his ship to be turned around and directed the ship's crew to make preparations for the rescue of more than 2,000 people. News that the Titanic, the largest passenger steamship at the time, was sinking was received by Carpathia's wireless operator, shortly after midnight.
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