They knew they were in the ice region.

They were keeping their eyes peeled for ice.

But unfortunately, the conditions of visibility that night were in fact so clear that it

actually created a slight haze on the horizon.

So the irony is because they could see so far and so clearly it actually meant they

saw the iceberg a few seconds later than they would normally have done.

And of course it was those few seconds that proved fatal for the Titanic.

That's Tim Malton and he's telling us the story of the most famous shipwreck in modern

times.

As a Titanic expert for the past 30 years he can take us deep in a one of history's

most lopsided battles.

Titanic was 46,000 tons.

She was the largest moving object made by man.

She could have a collision with another vessel and still survive.

But of course the Titanic's collision wasn't with another ship.

The iceberg was 100 feet high and that's above the surface of the water and 400 feet

long.

And the ice as you know is many times bigger underneath the water.

So in fact the iceberg probably weighed about 1 and a half million tons.

Right the iceberg.

The icebergs are famous for two things.

One is this story.

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