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This fifty-minute episode from the TV series "The Natural World" relates the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective of the iceberg that the mighty ship struck on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. The iceberg came from Greenland and was first carved in 1909. Said iceberg took all of three years to wind up in the area of the North Atlantic ocean that the Titanic was crossing on her maiden voyage. Unfortunately, the Titanic was plowing through that part of the ocean on a freezing cold night when the sea was calm and there was no moon in the sky, both of which made it difficult to spot anything ahead of it until it was already too late. It's noted by an expert on icebergs and the ocean that the Titanic would have probably survived a head-on collision with the iceberg with only some damage to the front of the ship; the major fatal error made by the crew was the hasty last minute decision to try to avoid the iceberg by turning away from it, which only made the hull susceptible to being torn open by said iceberg. The footage of the terrifying destructive power of icebergs makes for quite a startling spectacle to behold. Moreover, the stock footage of the Titanic being built and subsequently launched is likewise really impressive. An interesting and illuminating show.