Photo of icebergs around CARPATHIA

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A photograph of the ocean taken from the CARPATHIA on the day it rescued survivors of the TITANIC disaster, with icebergs and, barely visible when enlarged, a layer of field ice in the far distance. It was taken by Dr. Frank Blackmarr, a passenger of CARPATHIA who assisted in the rescue and documented the events in an album of photographs and notes. He has glued to this photograph a table titled "Visibility Distance at Sea" that was often printed in passenger booklets and journals to help calculate the size of things seen from the deck of a ship. Dr. Blackmarr was particularly interested in documenting the layer of field ice they encountered, and based on this table he estimated in his lecture notes (item #2020.39.7387) that the ice sheet was 90 to 95 feet high. He also described it as 80 miles long and 12 miles wide.