Titanic Iceberg Warnings

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The Titanic received 6 iceberg warnings. Although they ignored the warnings, in the movie Titanic, the iceberg caused the ship to sink. The Titanic movie accurately showed the sinking of the Titanic because of how big the iceberg was, closing of the bulkhead doors and where the iceberg hit the ship.

The iceberg was accurately portrayed in the movie with regard to height and length. The iceberg that sank the Titanic was about 50 to 100 feet high and approximately 200 to 400 feet long and the largest part of the iceberg was under the water! The crew of the Titanic was well aware of iceberg activity (1). When the Titanic hit the iceberg, the ship sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes (1). The Titanic received 6 radio calls of icebergs on April 14th