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Over the course of the next year, the gigantic iceberg has now reduced in size by at least 40 to 50 percent. The iceberg was probably a few miles long, but now, with the salt water, and the warmer water and air, the iceberg is going to start to fall off in large chunks. The water is going to be higher temperature than where the iceberg came from, so the first thing that will happen is the iceberg is going to start to melt. However, once in the ocean, the temperature, and the salt content of the water, is going to have a vast effect on the iceberg itself. Remember, the temperature in Greenland was probably well below freezing, which kept it frozen solid into one big massive shape. Once the iceberg is in the ocean, it is going to immediately change. When the original iceberg came away from the coast of Greenland, the size of it was a probably bigger than a state in the United States. The Iceberg Adrift In the OceanĪs the iceberg was drifting along in the ocean, many things were happening to it.

It is also estimated that the iceberg that Titanic struck probably broke off from the coast of Greenland around 1909, and then spent the next three years in the ocean. Scientists estimated that one snowflake landed in Greenland, and then over the course of the next 15 to 20 thousand years, it formed into the gigantic iceberg that more than likely sank the Titanic. Over 85 percent of the icebergs that are floating around in the ocean right now are from the coast of Greenland where the ice fjords are located. After a certain amount of time, that iceberg breaks off from a glacier, and then it becomes adrift in the ocean. Every iceberg comes from a single snowflake, and after the millions of years, the snow becomes compressed into one massive iceberg. The story of how an iceberg is created is actually quite simple because an iceberg is actually snow that has been building up for thousands of years. Though it may sound like a silly question, people may see pictures of giant icebergs floating in the ocean and wonder just where an iceberg comes from. Everyone who heard the shocking news could only think of one thing: How could something so horrible have happened? How could something unsinkable, and made by the hand of man, now be gone? Once the world settled down from the shock, there were a million questions, and one was, what happened to the iceberg that struck the Titanic? The Beginnings of the Iceberg That Struck the Titanic The news came in via telegraph that the biggest ship in the world, the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic had struck an iceberg, had sunk, and over 1500 out of 2200 passengers were now dead. Preliminary information indicates that this incident is accidental.On April 14,1912, the world was shook to its very core when news reached New York City that something completely unthinkable had happened. 'Three people were transported to area hospitals. 'Officers arrived to find that a wall of ice display fell and injured several visitors,' the statement reads.

The Pigeon Forge Police Department confirms in a statement to PEOPLE that officers responded to the museum just before 8 p.m.

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RELATED: Full Malibu Balcony Collapses Onto 'Jagged' Rocks at Party, Nearly a Dozen People Injured While the owners said the attraction would be closed in the aftermath of the incident, it reopened by Tuesday morning, according to a follow-up post on the Facebook page.Ī spokesperson for the museum tells PEOPLE that despite the museum's reopening, the iceberg wall, which was backed by a refrigerator to allow it to grow, 'does not exist at this time.' The condition of those injured was unknown. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with those who were injured, as well as their family and friends,' they wrote. Richard Gardner/Shutterstock Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee