Titanic coincidence

Many people have heard of premonitions and coincidences relating to the Titanic disaster. But for myself, whose acquaintance with these may have started in Fate magazine some years ago, the following was new. “Synchronicity and the

Titanic,” an article in Atlantis Rising #124, says that 23 years after the sinking, a seaman aboard a merchant vessel named

Titanian had been reading a novel, published in 1898, called

The Wreck of the Titan. Ten days after the Titanian had left Scotland for New York, seaman George Reeves was ordered to stand lookout at 2300 hours. At 23:35, he realised that the time was just five minutes earlier than when the Titanic had hit an iceberg. Increasing unease soon prompted him to order the engines to be stopped, saying “iceberg ahead”. The ship then struck some large fragments of ice, which caused damage, and as it came to a full stop an actual iceberg was spotted looming ahead in the darkness. Richard Porter Denver, Colorado