Where did the RMS TITANIC actually hit the iceberg?
A. The RMS TITANIC hit an iceberg on the evening of 14 April, 1912 and sank early in the morning of 15 April, 1912. TITANIC’s CQD or SOS (distress call) position was 41-56 degrees North and 50-14 degrees West. TITANIC’s final resting position, over 2000 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean, is 41-44 degrees North and 49-56 degrees West. The CQD position is assumed to be near where the TITANIC struck the iceberg. This position is approximately 13 nautical miles from TITANIC’s final resting place. Also, in 1912, navigation at sea could be very imprecise. Obviously, today we have satellite navigation. Back then they used celestial navigation and dead reckoning. The night they struck the berg, there was no moon. In order to accurately compute your position using the stars or the moon, you need to be able to see the horizon through a sextant. Capt Smith may have tried to do this, but he would have been guessing as to the exact sighting of the horizon. Therefore his star-fixe
