The Titanic 3D Model - As You've Never Seen Her Before
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- RMS Titanic explored as never before as a 3D model.
This 3D model of the Titanic has been built using the original plans for the ship and allows us to explore the Titanic in great depth and with great accuracy.
Laid down in March 1909 she was launched a little over two years later and completed just under a year after that, on 2 April 1912. Her size was immense: at 882 feet 9 inches long, she was the largest moveable man made object on earth.
This was a major engineering challenge and it revolutionised shipbuilding. No one had ever tried to build a ship the size of the Titanic or her sister ships Olympic and Britannic, ever before.
It took an entire year to put the Titanic’s frames in place. She was built with 2000 hull plates mostly 6ft wide and 30ft long, weighing up to three tons. The hull was held together with over three million iron and steel rivets.
After her launch, her funnels were added, completing her height to 175ft from the keel to the top of her funnels. Under the water, the red part of the hull was painted with red lead, which is lead oxide paint. For the rest of the hull and the main superstructure, the pigments used were white lead, white zinc and carbon black.
The Titanic was such a remarkable achievement that 100,000 people turned out to watch her launch.
The lookout post was fifteen metres above the deck. Lookouts worked in shifts of two hours and there was a large bell to ring if any danger was sighted and a telephone to help them communicate with the bridge. They were not, however, issued with binoculars…
The ship was commanded form the bridge which gave easy access to the outside and a commanding view forward. In 1912 there was no electronic navigation, positioning or collision avoidance systems. Judgment of course and speed was all done by eye.
The radio room with the latest Marconi radio equipment was located on the boat deck, as close to the top of the ship as possible to keep the feed line to the antennae short. The transmitter was the most powerful at sea able to contact either New York or London from the centre of the Atlantic.
The First Class accommodation was high up in the ship away from the noise of the machinery. The suites were lavishly decorated in styles of different historical periods. The largest had their own private section of deck.
The Third Class accommodation was split between either end of the ship in the lower decks. Single men were in the bow and single women and families were in the stern where they were subjected to the noise and vibrations of the engine and propellers.
The 20 lifeboats were carried on the uppermost deck but 32 more, featured in the original design were never put in place, to create space for the wealthy to exercise. This meant that the Titanic only had sufficient lifeboats for 33% of her passengers.
The Titanic’s band would often perform on the forward half of the boat deck.
At 11.40 on 14 April 1912, the Titanic was 370 miles south of Newfoundland, in 12,500 feet of water - nearly two and a half miles, travelling just under her top speed of just under ten metres per second, when an iceberg was spotted by the lookout.
He telephoned the bridge with the words ‘Iceberg right ahead’. It was 100 ft tall, the size of an eight-story building, and with no light to reflect it, the iceberg appeared almost black.
The order was given hard to starboard, to turn the ship to port but she struck on the starboard side, tearing as many as six different holes in her hull, all along the lines of her hull plates, suggesting that the rivets snapped off.
Water poured in at seven tons per second, fifteen times faster than it could be pumped out. The hull was divided into sixteen watertight compartments but they did not extend all the way up to the top of the ship, so the water flooded into each one at a time, as the bow began to sink. Within 45 minutes, 1500 tons of water were in the front section of the ship, and she snapped in half. Each section hit the seabed with such force that it created an enormous debris field, the stern burying itself fifteen metres below the sea bed. 1534 lost their lives.
This video has been made to go alongside an audio episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast in which Dr Sam Willis speaks with Don Lynch, a historian and member of the Titanic Historical Society, the original and largest Titanic society in the world, and who has spoken to more survivors of the Titanic than anyone else alive and was the official historian for James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic. The episode and full transcription can be found at the Society for Nautical Research’s website snr.org.uk.
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It has never been explained to me this way before: so clearly, simplified, but yet accurate, and straightforwards. I loved how clearly and easy the laws of physics felt when you were explaining how the water got inside the ship.
Titanic honor and glory has been working on their model for years, this reminded me of them
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4:50 it defies physics right there
You wern't there! Maybe physics were different back then!
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@@ccrider3435 yeah just like colors were just white, black and grey
This was made in 2022. There was no way that the ship could just break very fast. I swear, I think it happened to be the stern only being attached to the double keel while the ship actually split in half.
And hey, this is just what I think it is.
no, it really doesn't.
since the front half is full of water, it is 10x more heavy than the back half, which would cause a teeter totter effect, breaking the ship in 2.
The front half sinks immediately due to being already full of water.
the back half has a only a few flooded compartments, weighing that half down where the ship broke off.
due to the compartments that didnt flood yet, it creates an air pocket causing the rear end to rise, while simultaneously sinking where it originally broke off.
@@ccrider3435yeah really happy the devs patched the physic glitch’s.
This is as good as it gets. I am in awe of the diligent and careful work done. To think that this is available to the world wide audience is a gift of knowledge. Thanks.
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Outstanding assembly animation. This is such a clear way to understand how building a behemoth like that even is started.
No words to appreciate you. Such an excellent video
Very incredible The Titanic 3D Model, great video sharing
This video is something else I will record this video and save to my desktop library thank you so much for doing this
For a Titanic lover I love this ship like crazy I can't explain in words how I feel about Titanic this ship always takes me to the golden age of 1900s .
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This was an amazing undertaking. So we’ll done!
Thank you!
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Finally good to see models made are fixing the center props with 3 bladed.
But it does have the wing propellers turning in the wrong direction.
@@jaswmclark ah... Didn't notice that
It is, but the armchair experts of course know more about the ship than H&W 🙄 absolutely irritating they still try to claim it's four bladed with absolutely zero evidence to support their claim.
@@The-Marshmallow-Cookie it's more of a familiarity bias. All these years, everyone thought it was 4 bladed one like Olympic. It must be hard to change that belief.
I like how everyone is telling you that she had a 4 bladed central propeller, then links a picture of Olympic's propellers.
Cherry on the top being that Olympic herself also had a 3 bladed central propeller. Albeit for a short time, finishing the experiment Titanic obviously couldn't. If only there were pictures of that refit that everyone could confuse for being Titanic and the circle would be complete. ;)
There is some evidence that when Titanic sailed she had three bladed props in all three positions.
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@@CitizenMio Yes, now that you mention it I seem to remember them experimenting with a 4 blade propeller, but I think it produced too much vibration.
@@CitizenMioProbably was one but it's lost. Most likely a picture would have been taken just to document the experiment but most images didn't survive including video of the launch of Titanic (and Britannic). Olympic luckily is preserved as you probably know.
The last few seconds is incredible
Wow that was vivid 😮
Awesome animation too..👌
More than 20 years after watching the movie I just got to understand 100%. Thanks for this. So simple, yet so clear and detailed.
this is good information... ❤❤❤
Building this ship , now that was GRAFT !
Titanic 3D Model Very Instersting Video . Good Job
Great video, very informative. I have learned quite a lot of things about Titanic during the last year on UA-cam, but there is always still so much to learn. In this case, e.g. the antenna for the Marconi Room. It was part of the "rope" or wire connecting the forward and aft mast, as it seems. Also, the sinking process with the water exceeding the bulkheads on E deck is visualized very clearly.
Amazing Animation & Explanation!! ❤❤
Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for this recap 👍
One common thing about Titanic models is that they make the funnels yellow? The funnels were buff but closer to orange than yellow.
I think yellow funnels are more common... But the real colour is Khaki. I remember there is the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth(forgot) and the RMS Olympic's picture. All people know that Olympic is so similar with Titanic. So, that picture can be an example. Sorry I can't found the picture for you... 🤣😅
Forgive me but Titanic’s funnel colour was actually called buff. Khaki is a dark green colour
Oh sorry I found this bright yellow but the system said that is Khaki.
Nice explanation, i learned more about titanic in 5 mins
Excellent ...and grate video...
Man I really enjoyed this.
Good observation through the 3d model of the Titanic
Very nicely narrated wiht amazing animation.
Great video. Really enjoyed the video. Keep up the great content!
Didn’t even need to get in a sub to get this wonderful look at the titanic… I’m here dry as fuck!
Wow, as i have never seen her before- like that
00:23 ah yes cheeseburger per donut unit scale
Brilliant video.
Last mans comment aside,,smoke didn't come out of the forth funnel,,impressed ,,!!,,
I like how he keeps referring Titanic as "she", because she's a beautiful ship.
2:18 Weirdly (strangely? Oddly?), insects have "antennae" but the plural of a radio antenna is "antennas" :)
3:06 correction: the earlier design for titanic did not contain more lifeboats, in fact it had less as there were only 2 collapsible boats instead of 4.
It wasn't a design per se: Thomas Andrews did originally specify twice the number of lifeboats, but this was discarded in favour of allowing the passengers more deck space. The original idea called for the lifeboats to be stacked across their width, which would take up twice the amount of space and removing the famous 'Atlantic promenades' on the boat deck.
@@waverleyjournalise5757 there was no need for more boats, titanic by law had enough
the early design by Alexander, the original designer of Titanic and Olympic (Thomas Andrews was only his replacement)
had 68 lifeboats... after Ismay and others rejected the idea that a ship must have enough lifeboats for everyone
Alexander left the project... and Andrews continued... Andrews was a "Yes-Man" and by being so he sealed his own doom as well
@@jaguar4u2012 That isn’t exactly true.
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Nice video!
Good explanation
Great video.. Do more.
The model looks funky like a stylized Titanic but not just regular Titanic
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It's because Titanic in the movie is 10% shorter and her funnels are less tall so to people used to the movie the actual Titanic looks too long and the funnels seem huge or thinner..
A really cool an amazing video!
I think you should redo this video MM Podcast, because it's almost fantastic!!! I read a lot of valid criticisms(too many mistakes) but, nothing that couldnt be readily fixed and re-released/uploaded.
Example: 2:00 You say they didnt have electronic communication. Easy fix! Example: There is a funnel lying on the wreck at the end.
Best of Luck. Remember: Posterity is watching!!
Hard to believe the stacks on top just sit on top.
I would imagine some portion of the diameter goes down to the lowest level to the engines.
The furthest rear stack, in my understanding, does NOT contain engine smoke/exaust, just there for looks?
It was over 2½ hrs before she snapped in half - not 45 minutes as mentioned at 4:40 - great video though!
Hi, Awesome 3D model. Would it be possible to obtain the files of this model?
Good animation.
awesome!
Beautiful
Great stuff . Thank you .
The most referenced disaster and shipwreck in history.
No, he rang and rang and rang then said “Pick up you bastard!”
タイタニックの４本目の煙突から煙が上がってないあたり、リアルだなあと思います（４本目の煙突はダミーで、ボイラー室と繋がっていません）。
It did have some smoke. It was used for ventilation mainly from engine room, smoking room and first class galley.
11:40 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 1912 - when the Titanic contacted the iceberg (*not "15th").
4:38 didn't agree snap in half over two hours into the sinking, not 45 minutes? Or am I misunderstanding
The sinking is pretty inaccurate. It may be from the ‘97 movie, but she split just in front of the 3rd funnel and at a lower angle than is shown.
Beautifully done.
(One thing though: I'm pretty ancient but stopped thinking in American units many years ago. Would you cut some slack for the majority in future and give metric equivalents?)
They’re NOT American Units. The RMS Titanic was a British designed ship. All units were, and still should be, Imperial Units! These units were adopted by the Americans from the British Standard Imperial Measurements! Example, a thou. is a far more accurate measurement than mm! Virtually everything built in the U.K. was still in imperial into the late 1980’s. It should be brought back, and I’ve heard that they are going to start teaching it in schools again. They tried to get rid of yards, utter fail that was! We didn’t want metres or kilometres on our road signs, nor on the football pitch! Nor, and the most important of all, we didn’t want our pint removed! There would have been a war had that happened! Everybody but everybody in the U.K. talks about their height in Feet and Inches, even the youngsters do, that’s because we can all understand that, we say there’s a Foot of snow, not 300mm or what ever the hell it is!
@@pikachu6031 Hush now. I was just suggesting that a 2022 vid could be improved by including units that the rest of the world understands. I didn't suggest removing units used mostly in USA
Just convert metric to imp no big deal ya wanker
So, are people still weighed in stones? Explain your weight scales.
@@dalereed3950 MIne weigh in kg. Ditto throughout the medical profession, which is pretty much the only other context for measuring human weight. I remember stones, but they're just as obsolete as lbs.
Owow its an amazing animation
Thanks
The middle propelar was 3 bladed. There is no picture of it. Allen Gibsons book 'unsinkable titanic' has the photo on the cover. But the picture is of the Olympic. An identical ship.
I dont understand why they didn't build the compartments in the hull to the ceiling? To the top? Once water enters the ship, its pretty much guaranteed to fill everything in a serious scenario. Im not well versed in engineering however how did someone not say - "Hey this just wont work as the ship angle will automatically change with more water and we will sink"
If this potential reinactment is fairly accurate, It would suggest the ship would have definitely survived had tje design in the hull been different.
Also no binoculars for the watcher? It is pitch black out there more often than not at night so maybe the impact would still have happened anyway
Rest in peace to all those that were on the ship that day.
They were cutting costs .... there are speculations that there was a fire in the coal bunker and the ship still sailed
@@bogdanflo1212 not cutting costs. It's a passenger ship, not a battleship. It needs passenger space.
The coal fire didn't affect anything. It was a smouldering fire. They don't burn to a temperature that melts mild steel.
The height of watertight bulkheads were based on board of Trade regulations. The watertight bulkheads should've been 3 meters above waterline. That height was sufficient for scenarios they had in mind, their experiences. Nobody envisioned iceberg side scraping and opening up 6 compartments instead of 4.
Binoculars wouldn't have made much difference. It limits field of view. To spot something, lookouts need wide view and that against the horizon. Binoculars only give an enlarged view which prevents judging the distance and size of the obstacle.
Cool video, however when it broke in two it didn't snap in half right away there were to panels of the bottom that held it together until about 1/3 of the way down then the two halves separated
what angle do you put the Titanic at when it split? looking at the animations that seems like 30+ angle which is incorrect if you follow James Cameron Titanic "1997" version.
Give us 3d model plz
4:49 That's not how physics works lol... the completely detached back end of a ship, not even full of water, doesn't just bounce up into the air...
5:06 is that a funnel on the wreck?
Yup. The actual wreck doesn't show a single trace of a funnel on the decks of the ship.
Well thought out. Design error also played a role.
Why are imperial measurements still used? I don’t understand the length or weight figures given in the video at all.
So realistic! How you get it? I want one!!! 😊
if that was the case...should differentiate the vessel wall into inner and outer wall with something in between as a filler
In fairness it would have been very difficult to have seen ice with binoculars during the night time in pitch black.
Plus they did have them aboard. Just no one knew who had the key to the cabinet. A different crew sailed her to Southampton than the main crew for the voyage. The captain went on to Olympic they gave him Titanic to fet familiarised with an Olympic class. Smith had previously commanded Olympic so he was already familiar with the ship.
@@221b-l3tthere were 5 other pairs of binoculars available onboard. Lightoller's testimony. He said if it was deemed necessary they would've issued it to the lookouts.
Crazy how one of the most historically famous shipwreck happened over one of the most hard to reach points in the ocean. Weirdly coincidental
It was more dangerous to reach because it was a well known spot for icebergs and Titanic sank for the same reason. Not a coincidence so much as a disregard for warnings.
@@gruznik2119 it's still dangerous to this day to actually reach the wreck because of depth and a specific pattern of alternating currents at the bottom
Excellent presentation. However, as some people might know there's no consensus on how the Titanic hit the iceberg. If the order was simply to steer to port to try to go left of the iceberg, the theory is that the Titanic would have pivoted and it would have been the midship and stern that would have hit the iceberg leading to much more considerable damage. It's been suggested that Murdoch instead gave two successive commands in an effort to port around the iceberg, and the ship hit the iceberg at the point when they in fact turning to starboard.
Well, binoculars would have been pretty useless, in the middle of the Atlantic, in pitch black at night and early morning.
@@JokerScribe Uhm... yes. They wouldn't have made any difference. The missing MSG in that California ice warning potentially made a much bigger difference. There's much less talk about that than about the binoculars.
That's how big ships move, turning the rudder at full speed will swing the bow but it's still mostly moving in the same direction, so Murdoch ordered hard to port (non tiller) and once the bow swung clear of the berg he ordered hard to starboard to swing the stern out of the way, at that point Titanic was already in contact with the iceberg and stern moved out of the way just a second too late.
The animation shows the 6 gashes. You can see the last one is really the only problematic one. She could float with the first 4 gone but the sixth gash opened compartments 5 and 6 (Boiler Rooms 6 and 5, seen from the bow).
That's what sank Titanic. Boiler Room 6 besides that gash only had a very very small opening and the pumps where quite powerful, they could have dealt with Boiler Room 6 and Nr.5 would have been completely dry. So she would have easily floated for many hours and once Carpathia got there she would have run hoses from her own pumps while the passengers would be transferred. And once a bunch of ships show up they could have pumped out some more, shore up the worst of it and very slowly sail to Halifax for basic repairs and then back to Belfast. Basically what happened with Olympic.
The last incision was 36 feet long by far the largest and at 10 m/s it happened in the last second of the collision. So if the Berg had been spotted 1 second earlier there is a good chance Titanic would have survived and at 3 s she would have certainly survived. Likely able to sail on at reduced speed with 2-3 compartments open. The entire impact sequence would have been around 8 s.
@@221b-l3t Interesting details, thanks. It's mindboggling to think that so much can depend on just mere seconds, or inches, thinking in terms of the iceberg.
@@Katoshi_Takagumi That's how it often goes. You probably came within a second of dying and never noticed. Some guy realised it's a red light at the last second and slammed onto the brakes instead of killing you. You could have been in an aircraft that missed a Cessna by 20 m and no one on board ever found out. Cessna pilot just got told to not fly over a busy airport unannounced.
4:48 love how the water breaks the laws of physics in the stern 😂. Titanic muppets keeping life in the official myth.
what is that song used throughout this video?
When you consider just how fast the water was pouring in, it's absolutely amazing she stayed afloat for 45 minutes.
The collision was around 11:40 pm and she finally sank at 2:20 am, a good bit longer than 45 mins
what do you mean? the ship stayed afloat for over 2 hours
@@skyline3344 Not if you watch the 1997 movie at 2x speed.
@@skyline3344 Yes, that's right. It is one of the things that makes Titanic cast its spell on us all. A lot of the horror is in that gradual dawning awareness of what was going to happen. Those poor people.
Can we get this model?❤
I remember an article saying that if she had run straight into the iceberg she would have survived the collision with just a dented bow.
Probably frame damage too expensive to repair, but yes lives would've been possibly saved.
@@5.56pete No Suevic grounded, they cut the entire bow off, sailed the midsection and stern to Southampton, built a new bow in Belfast and reattached. She sailed many years. You cut out the damaged part and make a new bow. Some ships hit dead on. They "telescoped", crushed.
BTW Suevic was also White Star and Harland and Wolff made those repairs.
Titanic would have lost about 80 feet. Crushed... so not able to hold water and pull her down. About 200 would have been in that area, mostly crew and some third class single men. Families where in the stern as where single women (old ships kept those groups seperated, which reduced complaints by female passengers and workload for security).
Can we download the model?
its so amazing
You're doing a better job than Lewis Bodine on the 1997 movie Titanic haha.
Where do l get this 3D file?!😢
1,496 people lost their lives that night the last man to die that night was named William Hoyt who was pulled from the water but died from the cold water
Available for download? In Step file or sokidworks?
" ... to create space for the wealthy to exercise." The collision occurred on 14 April 1912.
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Video claims April 15th 11:40 PM was the iceberg impact Incorrect it was April 14th. Cmon now lads. She sunk on the 15th yes. Collision was on 14th
Was not ready 4 dat size of ship in dat times
Blue print is actually showing us what's inside the ship ...
Seeing those rivets being shorn off, I wonder if it would have fared better just meeting it head-on.
Yes, you are absolutely right - shd would have faired better hitting the berg head-on. All ships have a 'collision bulkhead' aft of the stem (its location is governed by the classification society, the ship's use, the naval architdct, etc.).
I can't 8magine hitting it head on being "better"..30 m8kes per hour is 10 yards or 30 feet a second and l would imagine so much more damage would have occurred!
The fast shock wave will shatter the hull of the ship
Wait, was it her first voyage?
Interesting graphics nice effort but you got the date wrong, 1140 PM was the night of the 14th, not the 15th.
I have no idea why so many are praising this guy? He’s got just about everything Wrong! Dates, times, centre prop was a 4 blade not 3, lifeboat numbers, and also tells us the Titanic was a Prototype? What? The Second of three Olympic Class Liners launched after the Olympic! So, how can Titanic be a prototype? Poor all round! There is so much information online about Titanic, that I thought how can you possibly get this so wrong? Unbelievable!
@@pikachu6031 not everything online is accurate if that was the case....... v-brake.... coalfire Theory and switch Theory...... So much pain....
@@cats2927 People who can’t accept Reality and Facts, need to see a Psychiatrist!
@@pikachu6031 I agree.
Although it’s documented quite clearly that Titanic’s central prop was indeed 3 bladed.
@@DerpyPossum Quite clearly documented. Really?? Try researching the FACTS about Titanic and look at some pictures of its propellers, which are also online, instead of believing this idiot, and you’ll be surprised you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried!
Excellent and useful!
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Until now, I didn't understand why it broke into half pieces. 20+ good years.
I can now graduate 🎓.
its a good thing it sank, otherwise sea travel wouldnt have been safer than it was a century ago.
100,000 people turned out to the launch?. is that referring to her maiden voyage or the launch at Belfast on the 31st May 1911?. If it's the 31st May then 100,000 people is incorrect, there were around 40,000 people watching her enter the river Lagan. I doubt there were 100,000 people at Southampton either. Also Titanic hit the iceberg on the 14th not the 15th, she sank in the early hours of 15th April. Do people actually research these things?.
1534 ppl? Where did that number come from. It is commonly accepted that 1490 people perished however maximum number suggested by US commision was 1517. So its between 1490-1517
The exact number was 1,496, so he was off by quiet a few people lol.
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Now do a video on the submersible Titan using the ceo's original detailed plans he scribbled on a cocktail napkin
I wonder if stopping the starboard and central propellers, leaving the port prop in full speed into the rudder; could have bought Titanic just a few inches to avoid most of the collision.
It would, but at what cost, we don't even know if the engines could be controlled independently as that could cause a lot of vibration and would be inconvenient unless you were to crash on your mayden voyage.
It would take more than 30 seconds to stop an engine and put it into reverse and more time before it had any affect…
@@timothyreed8417 I have heard so many theories about the engines. Many accounts contradict each other.
Was there an order to the engine room telegraph to reverse engines? Were they put into 'full speed astern'? Did they ever start spinning backwards BEFORE the collision?
We did an RC test many years ago, with a boat with semi-similar rudder to Titanic. When spinning the props in reverse while the ship moved forward, the steering was dramatically reduced, possibly because of the vortex around the rudder?
I would LOVE to know if this happened before the Titanic struck the berg. Never really can get a straight answer!!
Cheers
@@ccrider3435 was the RC boat powered by steam engines? Or electric?
Wouldnt it have made sense to simply put a spotlight on t he crowsnest so the lookout could shine it ahead like a headlight? Also, if they had driven head on into the 'berg, she would have floated and not sunk, instead it ripped a huge gash in the side and too many compartments flooded.
Yes, a powerful spotlight is very helpful in spotting 'growlers' - old small icebergs, that usually have 'turned turtle' with their smooth & rounded underside now on top. Even though 'small', nevertheless, could still easily weigh 50 to 100+ tonnes, and only riding 6-8 feet (2-3 metres) above the sea. When we used to run to the high Arctic, at night, in the autumn of the year, radar would not detect growlers on account the radar waves bouncing-off the smooth and rounded surface, we would use powerful spotlights port & starboard.
Using this method, we could spot growlers at night at a range about 1-1.5 nm (nautical miles; 1nm = 6080 feet) ahead, yet never observe a return echo on the radar screen.
Icebergs did give good echo returns on radar screen.
All in all - we were a young crew and had a great time together. The high Canadian Arctic, in summer, is an absolutely stupendous, magnificent and magical place!
That was almost 45 years ago now - made some life-long friends on the ship, and now, semi-retired from sailing, know I will miss the high seas once am 'fully retired'...