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It was night, dark and extremely cold. Human eyes cannot see unlit objects at night in the cold even with the help of binoculars until they are very close.

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I personally don't believe it was the lookouts fault. They had no binoculars, which was pretty stupid. And it was dark and hard to see icebergs. He let captain smith know as soon as possible.

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