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Fleeing the Scene

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on June 19th, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Titanic_iceberg.jpg

On April 15, 1912, the German liner Prinze Adelbert was steaming through the North Atlantic when its chief steward noticed an iceberg with a curious scar bearing red paint. He took this photo.

He learned only later that the Titanic had gone down in those waters less than 12 hours earlier.