There Were Several Warnings of Ice From Other Ships
Titanic was warned about floating sea ice several times throughout the day leading up to the disaster. Several ships had reported “field and pack ice,” and had passed the messages on to Titanic. But because the radio operators had been dealing with a backlog of passenger messages from the previous day, only two of the six received made it to the bridge. Just nine minutes before the collision, the SS Californian had signaled that it had halted for the night in a field of ice. Tragically, radio operator Jack Phillips cut them off and signaled back that he was busy transcribing passengers messages.
