North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches

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1. Story
2. The stretch of open ocean southeast of Newfoundland crossed by the westbound transatlantic track, where the cold Labrador Current running south meets the warm Gulf Stream running northeast. It is the busiest ocean passage of the age of the liner and the place the great circle route brings shipping closest to drifting ice. Titanic was navigating it at about 22 knots on the night of 14 April 1912, and the wreck lies on the abyssal plain at its southeastern edge, roughly 370 nautical miles from Newfoundland in what are now international waters.
3. Knowledge
4. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
5. Connections
6. RMS Titanic
7. North Atlantic iceberg drift
8. Titanic wreck site
9. International Ice Patrol
10. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
11. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
12. Iceberg sighted and struck
13. Titanic founders
14. International Ice Patrol established
15. Gulf Stream
16. Southern Ocean
17. Labrador Sea
18. The RAPID array begins continuous AMOC measurement at 26.5°N
19. Evidence
20. Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.
21. Ice patrols of the North Atlantic shipping lanes began in response to the 1912 loss and were formalised by the 1914 SOLAS convention; the Patrol is funded by participating maritime nations and has been operated by the US Coast Guard since, publishing seasonal iceberg limits to shipping.