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Yes, she was warned by a number of other vessels via radio about the dangers of icebergs in the area. However, the Marconi wireless operators were operating over-capacity due to the fact that wireless was still a novelty in those days, and there was a huge demand from passengers to send messages to friends and relatives in the USA that they would soon be arriving. It was a big, statusful thing in those days to say that you had communicated with someone by wireless, a bit like receiving e-mails in the early years of the internet. The two main vessels to send warnings were the Mesaba and the nearby Californian, to which radio operator Jack Phillips replied to the latter with an irritable 'Shut Up, Shut Up, I am Busy! I am working Cape Race!' (Cape Race was the closest coastal wireless relay station in the USA).

Phillips did not survive the ensuing disaster- had he done so, he would undoubtedly have had some very stern questions to answer as to why he ignored the warnings, and prioritised non-essential messages from passengers above serious shipping warnings.

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