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Andrea Doria - Part 2: Confident routines unravel in the fog as technology collides with human limits
The first sign of trouble wasn’t a crash or a shout. It was a faint, shifting image on a radar screen—a ghostly return, easy to misread, yet carrying the weight of every crossing’s risk. On July twenty-fifth, nineteen fifty-six, as the Andrea Doria approached the Nantucket lightship route, fog wrapped the ship in a dense, silent uncertainty. The Atlantic narrowed to a world of radar blips, muffled horns, and the steady hum of engines.
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