No Binoculars Doomed Titanic
OK information junkies, did you realize that the crew of the Titanic could have avoided their fatal collision with the Atlantic iceberg if they had been using binoculars to scan the ocean? Turns out, David Blair was given the job of second officer on the Titanic but he was replaced. And when he left the ship, he took the key to his locker, which contained the binoculars. The ship’s lookout leader later admitted that with those binoculars they would have spotted the iceberg in plenty of time to avoid it. Check out 25 other things that changed history forever in this edition of Mental Floss hosted by John Green.
