Tour company OceanGate Expeditions said it believes the five passengers on board the missing Titanic-bound submersible have died. Follow here for live updates.
The main difference is that the Pylos tragedy forces us to confront heavy issues that are politically fraught. Oceangate doesn’t have the same context. Even though most of us are more likely to be closer to the people on that ship than the billionaires on the sub, it’s easier to digest the Oceangate story. Maybe because of the distance, it seems like more of a plot of a film, whereas the boat incident is a humanitarian disaster.
The main difference is that the Pylos tragedy forces us to confront heavy issues that are politically fraught. Oceangate doesn’t have the same context. Even though most of us are more likely to be closer to the people on that ship than the billionaires on the sub, it’s easier to digest the Oceangate story. Maybe because of the distance, it seems like more of a plot of a film, whereas the boat incident is a humanitarian disaster.