“If Titanic’s compass error were only 0.5°, she would have been off her course for around 9 m over 1 km of the run. This apparently insignificant error could have made the difference between colliding with the iceberg and avoiding it...”
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Of course there is no way to tell if the ship was on course because it sank ...
““If Titanic’s compass error were only 0.5°, she would have been off her course for around 9 m over 1 km of the run. This apparently insignificant error could have made the difference between colliding with the iceberg and avoiding it...”
Titanic CHANGED course. Maybe they shouldn’t have. They wouldn’t have hit THAT iceberg.
Most other ships STOPPED! Titanic couldn’t do THAT! We are setting a new record! THAT they accomplished.