Many critics are stunned that Titanic enthusiasts assume such risks to visit the wreck. To them, the jaw-dropping costs only highlight the gap between wealthy and poor people. But for others, the grip of the Titanic’s story is simply impossible to ignore.
Many critics are stunned that Titanic enthusiasts assume such risks to visit the wreck and its underwater graveyard. To them, the jaw-dropping costs, both of the submersible adventure and the international rescue effort, only highlight the gap between wealthy and poor people.trying to get from Libya to Italy, who drowned after their boat capsized in some of the deepest waters of the Mediterranean.
“While we are glued to the news about 5 mostly wealthy tourists lost on a submarine on their way to seek the wreckage of a sunken ship, today is World Refugee Day, and only last week a boat holding hundreds of refugees sank off the coast of Greece,” Jeffers“It took two hours and 40 minutes to sink, which is long compared to most other wrecks,” Gareth Russell, who wrote a book about the Titanic, told. “That time enabled people onboard to go through the process of dealing with death.
Russell, coincidentally, said he was offered a place on the Titan a few years ago and considered it, but he ultimately turned down the opportunity, saying, “I’m not great with enclosed spaces, and this was my worst nightmare. It’s a treacherous dive.”“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night. And many people died as a result.
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