On April 15, 1912, the British merchant ship SS Mesaba issued a radio warning of the iceberg to the Titanic during its transatlantic crossing. The Titanic received the message, but it was not communicated to the main control center. That night the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. The Mesaba was torpedoed by a German submarine while escorting in 1918, killing 20 people, including the commander. The exact location where the Mesaba sank was unknown for a century. Now scientists have used multibeam sonar to find its wreckage on the sea floor of Ireland. The offshore survey tool shows the wreck’s superstructure on a sonar map, allowing researchers to identify it.
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