The investigators in the inquiries stated that with the given information that 37 seconds past between when the iceberg was spotted and when the ship actually struck.

I guess this was aknowleged as fact because QM Hitchens said the ships compass moved two points at the time of the collision, and a test done with Olympic proved that it took 37 seconds to turn two compass points at 21 knots.

However, in "Ghosts of the Titanic", Charles Pellegrino and Walter Lord give out a case stating that it is possible that the ship struck the iceberg within seconds after it was first seen, in fact it may have been the iceberg that turned the ship at first, not her own rudder.


Has anyone else read about this? If so, what do they think?