That means it likely broke off from Greenland in 1910 or 1911, and was gone forever by the end of 1912 or sometime in 1913. Mr Elys has been working for twenty years in an ice-skating rink he has made his home. The average life expectancy of an iceberg in the North Atlantic is only about two to three years from calving to melting. With Patrick d'Assumao, Aurlia Poirier, Philippe Koa, Kevyn Diana. Such a temperature was of course lethally cold for all those passengers who had been forced to take to the open water to escape the sinking ship.īut such temperatures are far too warm to sustain icebergs for very long. The water temperature on the night of the Titanic sinking was thought to be about 28 degrees Fahrenheit, just below freezing. 15, 1912, the iceberg was some 5,000 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Of the 15,000 to 30,000 icebergs calved each years by the Greenland glaciers, probably only about 1 percent of them ever make it all the way to the Atlantic.
The Titanic iceberg was one of the lucky ones, so to speak, as the vast, vast majority of icebergs melt long before they reach that far south. Starting on the Greenland coast, it would have moved from Baffin Bay to the Davis Strait and then onto the Labrador Sea and, at last, the Atlantic. 'Iceberg charts are usually images of an iceberg, captioned humorously so as to convey that the tip of the iceberg is the summation of the knowledge of most people, while the much larger submerged part of the iceberg is the sum of all knowledge of a particular. We know that because the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, rather than the Arctic, which means the currents must have taken it far south of where it was calved. Welcome to r/IcebergCharts, a subreddit totally unrelated to mapping out icebergs. Image: Russell Huff and Konrad Steffen/CIRES/University of Colorado/NASAīut once all that's done, the iceberg's life was a short one.
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