Alice Scanlon Reach

On the night of 14–15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic, the passenger liner Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. There were investigations into the iceberg and the fatal damage the collision caused to the supposedly unsinkable ship with several surviving crew and passengers having claimed to have seen it.
The iceberg was often seen metaphorically as a counterpart to the luxurious ship, standing for the cold and silent force of nature that cost the lives of around 1,500 people. It was also seen in various political and religious contexts, and has appeared in poetry as well as in pop culture.