Iceberg. A close-up shows one of the season's large crop of icebergs spotted drifting southeast of Newfoundland by the International Ice Patrol force. The lines are clear blue ice (fresh water ice) which is distinctive from the opaque white ice of which the iceberg is mainly composed. The berg is approximately 200 ft. high above water and 500 ft. long. Its greatest menace might lie beneath the water, where often as much as 85 percent of a berg (depending on its size and shape) is hidden and protrudes in long jagged prongs. In April 1912, an underwater prong of an iceberg located at the souther
Iceberg. A close-up shows one of the season's large crop of icebergs spotted drifting southeast of Newfoundland by the International Ice Patrol force. The lines are clear blue ice (fresh water ice) which is distinctive from the opaque white ice of which the iceberg is mainly composed. The berg is approximately 200 ft. high above water and 500 ft. long. Its greatest menace might lie beneath the water, where often as much as 85 percent of a berg (depending on its size and shape) is hidden and protrudes in long jagged prongs. In April 1912, an underwater prong of an iceberg located at the southern tip of the Grand Banks slashed the side of the Titanic, sending her to the bottom with 1,517 lives. In January 1959 the Danish Motor Vessel Hans Hedtoft though equipped with modern radar, met similar disaster after striking an iceberg off Greenland, far north of the area covered by the Ice Patrol, however. Out of the Titanic tragedy, the International Ice Patrol was born in 1914. The Hans Hedtoft disaster spiked more intensive scientific studies this year than previously on the effectiveness of radar in detecting icebergs in path of ships during fog and other adverse atmospheric conditions. A Coast Guard Radar Iceberg Detection project became a major sidelight issue of the 1959 International Ice Patrol. The International Ice Patrol carried on its 1959 operations out of Argentia, Nfld., from March 4 to July 17, having experienced one of the busiest ice seasons of its history. This year's crop of about 500 bergs known to pass the 48th parallel was surpassed in the last 40 year only by the 1957 crop of 931 bergs.
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