Sunken boat killing hundreds overshadowed by Titan submersible coverage
Sunken boat killing hundreds overshadowed by Titan submersible coverage
A fishing boat crowded with migrants traveling from Libya to Italy sank in Greek waters last week. While hundreds are still missing and feared dead, it has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for five people.
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I'm not sure about who this article is criticizing exactly. It's not like we don't know about the sunken boat - we do. It's just not as interesting as a lost submarine.
If there was a kid lost in the atlantic on a inflatable unicorn nobody would be talking about the submarine. That's how our attention works. 5 people is more interesting that 200 people and 1 person is more interesting than five.
5 billionaires go missing. 5 nation's coast guards jump at the chance to save them. How many of the 500 would be saved if they had not gone looking for dead men? Could it be said that 505 people are dead because some rich asshole wanted to play James Cameron?
It's not just people missing. It's the efforts of the various organisations around the world that have put huge amounts of effort into finding them when they could've saved a lot more (hell 1 more is a lot more) had they focused on larger disasters.
But because the victims are Arabs and refugees, nobody cares.
I agree that not all people receive the same amount of attention but I still argue that if it had capsized and there was people trapped inside then people all around the world would rush to help. There arent that many vessels capable of doing this kind of stuff so when they're needed all available ones start heading there immediately no matter whose in trouble.
The submarine going missing was a multi day tragedy where it was a race against time. In the end, we found out the people had died immediately, but nobody knew that originally. Had we all known that the submarine had imploded immediately, it would also have been a non story.
For me it’s a lot less about the number of people, and much more about the circumstances of the story. Boats have been capsized for as long as history itself, but when was the last time a submarine went missing? And then all of the shady details about the CEO and the company’s ignorance to safety are rather interesting to hear about as well.