Sunken boat killing hundreds overshadowed by Titan submersible coverage (www.nbcnews.com)

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[-] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

While fucked up, it's disinguinuous suggest that the news is blowing up only due to the fact that they're billionaires. While large boat disasters are fairly uncommon, how often do you hear of a submarine disaster. Especially one where the inhabitants are missing but potentially on a timer - trapped in a submarine with no way to open from the inside, many peoples ultimate fear. The story writes itself, pile on what seems to be a neglectful company and you've got a story people are going to be invested in. I don't think the coverage or the search and rescue would be any different if it were a scientific submarine with scientists.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Thai cave boys are another good example. They were rural third-worlders, but it still became a sensation. It just has to be bloody and dramatic to attract attention. A story like "people on boat drown again" is too mundane, it becomes a statistic instead of a tragedy.

What's really irksome is that these rich guys that pay people to put them weird but often already-explored places get called "explorers".

[-] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

This is effectively saying, "This article is correct but for the wrong reasons". People aren't angry about why hundreds of migrants dying isn't newsworthy. They're angry that it's not newsworthy.

I'm frankly surprised that not enough people find it disgusting that the EU passively killing hundreds of refugees is less interesting because the EU does so regularly.

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Because immigrants die in stupid ways all the time. A shit in your toilet is not newsworthy. A shit on your kitchen table is.

[-] Licensed_to_ill@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The way you just compared migrants to shit in your toilet rubs me the wrong way.

[-] theredroom@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. Rubbed me so wrong that a genie just shot out of a bottle next to me.

[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Username checks out I guess.

[-] guyman@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the issue is the resources dedicated to each disaster. I don't know if all the immigrants died though, so there may not have been a point in rescuing them at all.

[-] Steak@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

They found a debris field near the titanic recently. It was a catastrophic failure. RIP to those on board.

[-] Eribetra@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

If you mean the OceanGate submarine, it seemingly spectacularly imploded after its carbon fiber structure gave in to various microfractures. If that really is what happened, the water pressure killed the crew faster than their brains would've processed anything.

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The pressure does not kill. Whales live down there. It’s the compressibility of water. At this depth it’s about 4% compressed. The cabin has 1 atmosphere of pressure, the water around it about 100. Through a microfracture water shoots in at the speed of sound in water (3x speed of sound in air) - that’s about 100 bars. That’s like a water jet cutter. It rips the microfracture open. Within a tenth of a second they get pressed to death by the compressibility of water.