North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches

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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.