We know almost everything about the Titanic itself. And how epic he was drowning, and how he broke in half, and even the last phrase of DiCaprio, many can remember literally.
But what happened to the culprit of the tragedy? Where did he go after the collision and how long did he live? It turned out that this is a rather curious story leading all the way to Russia … However, first things first.
First you need to understand what kind of iceberg it was. Its mass was 420 thousand tons, that is, it is a very decent mountain of ice.
How much do you think this block was larger than the Titanic itself? Personally, when I watched the film, I thought that the iceberg and the steamer were related something like this:
In fact, the "titanic iceberg" was a tiny fraction in the world of icebergs. Its highest point barely reached the upper decks of the steamer.
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To be precise, the height of the iceberg was only over 100 meters. This is 2.5 times less than the length of the Titanic. And almost the entire mass of ice, as it happens, was hidden under the water.
This baby was born 3-4 thousand years ago in the glaciers of Greenland. In those days, of course, there was no smell of any steamers.
Pharaohs built their pyramids, the last mammoth was dying in Chukotka, several thousand years remained before the discovery of America, and our cold-blooded killer was already slowly crawling from the glacier to the sea.
Around June 1910, he broke off his ice shell and set off on a free voyage across the Arctic seas. It took him more than two years to get to the crash site.
It is curious that when this block of ice fell into the water, the Titanic was still under construction. And when the steamer set off on that fateful voyage, the iceberg had already covered 99.9% of its path. It turns out that he was waiting for the "Titanic" in the appointed place, to which he had been walking for several thousand years.
It is also surprising that Greenland generates up to 30 thousand icebergs a year, but only a few of them reach the latitudes where the hero of our story swam …
And then the collision happened. I must say that the iceberg survived it calmly. The Titanic lived only a few hours, but the iceberg floated further. Soon it was picked up by the Gulf Stream.
This current is warm and very fast (up to 10 km / h). So the iceberg began to rapidly melt, and yet it was enough to get … where do you think?
To the Arkhangelsk region of Russia. Namely, to Franz Josef Land.
There, the iceberg was washed ashore, where it overwintered, and in the summer of 1913 it finally melted, having outlived the Titanic for more than a year. Such is the difficult fate, worthy of another film. Nature has once again shown us our place.