This is claimed to be photo of said iceberg that was taken the day after the sinking by a ship passing through the area. The photographer states they recognized it thanks to a large streak of red and black paint (the dark spot in the left hand side near the water.) And even if it may not be the specific iceberg, it is a fairly good example of what it would have looked like.
As you can see it’s not very big, nor is it shaped in such a way that you could easily offload people on to it. Like most icebergs, the vast majority of its bulk was underwater. It was also moving, so even if it had been a tabular iceberg they’d have needed to keep running the engines to keep up with it, which would have actually accelerated the sinking by dragging the bow under as the center of gravity shifted and putting more strain on the keel.
There’s a lot of misconceptions about the Titanic, and one of the biggest ones is that the disaster must have happened because the crew was in some way incompetent or did something wrong. But the fact is that the ship was crewed by some of the best people available, and throughout the crisis and the lead up to it they did everything right given the information they had at the time orders were given.
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