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The Captain was in bed when they had the collision, but if the people in the Crow's Nest had seen the iceberg and alerted the people in the control room just 30 seconds earlier the ship could have avoided the iceberg

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Q: Could the captian of the Titanic do anything to avoid the ice berg?
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