Titantic’s Morse Code Messages
102 years ago today...April 15, 1912...
On the night the Titanic struck an iceberg, 100 years ago last night, a network of wireless operators on ships and land stations frantically communicated with each other across the expanses of the North Atlantic in an effort to mount a rescue mission. The surviving messages form a real-time record of the events of that night.
The only surviving real-time record of the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago this weekend are the transcriptions of Morse Code messages sent to and from the ship via Marconi Wireless–the most advanced long-distance communication of its time.
On the 100th anniversary of the disaster, an audio artist has used voice synthesis software to bring those messages to life.
That Titanic broke into two sections and sank rapidly at 2:19 AM on April 15, 1012.