“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away. Some of us would go to the bottom with the ship." — Captain Edward J. Smith. From the New York Times, April 19, 1912. SMITH SPOKE OF ICE PERIL/Captain Also Realized the Inadequacy of the Lifeboats. Support the restoration