Titanic survivors commented that the sky was clear on the evening the ship sank on April 15 1912. However, for the crew, positioned above the water, the view of the horizon was blocked by a haze that may have stopped them from seeing the iceberg until it was too close. After analysing survivor accounts, in particular a Times report which quoted lookout Reginald Lee’s observations of the evening, Historian Tim Maltin believes a “thermal inversion” occurred. Maltin suspects cold air from the... Read this story
