{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Titanic - Part 2: The warnings go unheeded","description":"Ice in the North Atlantic is never a surprise, but on Titanic’s last day, the warnings piled up faster than anyone acted. Messages came from ship after ship: ice ahead, bergs on the route, danger in the dark.\r\n\r\nYet the liner pressed on, confident, fast, and blind to the chain of ordinary failures building below the shining surface. April fourteenth, nineteen twelve. Titanic had entered hazardous waters, and the ship’s Marconi wireless operators were busy, their ears filled with static and chatter. Warnings of ice came in: from the Mesaba, the Californian, the Caronia. These were not whispers or rumors—they were direct reports, naming bergs and ice exactly where Titanic was heading. But in the stream of commercial messages and passenger telegrams, not all warnings made it to the bridge in time.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/titanic","author_name":"The Archive Network"}