The Titanic Victim Found On An Iceberg 76 Years Later!

Can you believe this? I certainly can’t!

John Welford

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“The Iceberg That Sank The Titanic, by Pascal Lee” by Pascal Lee is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

The following story buzzed across the Internet in the late 1980s, and was even reported in a BBC radio bulletin in Britain.

According to the story, in March 1988, towards the end of the Cold War, a Russian destroyer was on patrol in the North Atlantic (about 800 miles south of Iceland), when a lookout on the ship who had high-powered binoculars spotted an iceberg on the horizon. There was nothing unusual about an iceberg being in that area of the ocean in March, but what excited the lookout was the curious dark spot he could see on the iceberg. As the berg floated nearer to the destroyer, he zoomed in on the dark spot and, to his amazement, the dot could be seen as the figure of a woman lying on a ledge, covered in a thin layer of ice. She was dressed in a black jacket and a long black dress and was lying on her back.

The captain of the destroyer immediately dispatched a motorboat to take a closer look. Two divers left the boat and swam over to the ledge of the iceberg to take a closer look at what was, obviously, a frozen corpse from some sea disaster. Three more men, including a physician, came off the ship and spent almost an hour freeing the body from the ice. The woman, who looked about 25–30 years old, was perfectly preserved…

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John Welford

He was a retired librarian, living in a village in Leicestershire. A writer of fiction and poetry, plus articles on literature, history, and much more besides.