Titanic - Fire and Ice
Channel: ADW993
Date: 2012-04-09

Tuesday (10 April) marks the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe at sea nearly everyone on the planet has heard about.

One of the greatest puzzlements to me was why a ship that had already been warned about massive numbers of ice floes in the water would be cruising at top -- some have described it as "breakneck" -- speed in such dangerous waters.

For mariners, this is baffling behavior because the ship was already ahead of schedule (one reason why rescue ships had a hard time locating her... she wasn't where she was supposed to be) and the seas were alarmingly calm (as sure sign that ice had prevented a chop from developing).

Well, this story from the CBC last night tells a story I had never heard before and might go a LONG ways towards explaining everything....
... well, at least a whole lot.

The ship's doom might have been more than just caused by ice.
It might have also been fire.

Robert Frost would have been proud.