image creditThe story of the Titanic is barnacled with myths and legends. It has become part of the popular imagination, a symbol for the most epic and glamorous failure. On the night the Titanic struck an iceberg, a network of wireless operators on ships and land stations frantically communicated with each other across the expanses of the North Atlantic in an effort to mount a rescue mission.
There is really only one first-hand, real-time record of what happened that night - the collection of wireless messages sent between the Titanic and the other ships which hurriedly tried to organize a rescue operation, during that freezing night in April 1912.The Presurfer
