319 // Titanic Obsessions w/Daniel Stone

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Check out our Crawlspace subscription service where we have a bonus show and ad-free episodes! https://crawlspace.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Crawlspace" for your first month FREE! Check out our Missing subscription service where we have a bonus show and ad-free episodes! https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Missing" for your first month FREE! Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna speak with Daniel Stone about his new book, Sinkable. In Sinkable, Daniel spins a fascinating tale of history, science, and obsession, uncovering the untold story of the Titanic not as a ship but as a shipwreck. He explores generations of eccentrics, like American Charles Smith, whose 1914 recovery plan using a synchronized armada of ships bearing electromagnets was complex, convincing, and utterly impossible; Jack Grimm, a Texas oil magnate who fruitlessly dropped a fortune to find the wreck after failing to find Noah’s Ark; and the British Doug Woolley, a former pantyhose factory worker who has claimed, since the 1960s, to be the true owner of the Titanic wreckage. Daniel is a national bestselling writer on science, history, and adventure. He's a senior editor for National Geographic and a former White House Correspondent for Newsweek. He's a professor of environmental science at Johns Hopkins University. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2154901/daniel-stone/ https://www.danielstonebooks.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Sinkable-Obsession-Deep-Shipwreck-Titanic/dp/B09MVCQ74Y https://www.amazon.com/Food-Explorer-Adventures-Globe-Trotting-Transformed/dp/1101990589/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Follow Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danenroute Daniel mentions Project Azorian in this interview. Here is a link to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian This episode is brought to you in part by our wonderful sponsors, Modern Fertility & Best Fiends. Get $30 off your fertility test when you go to ModernFertility.com/crawlspace30. Download the FREE Upside App and use promo code: Crawlspace to get $5 or more cash back on your first purchase of $10 or more. Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Join the Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Crawlspace Media is part of the Glassbox Media Network. Check them out here: https://glassboxmedia.com/ Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ to connect your existing Amazon account to donate to PI's For the Missing. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?
0:38.0	Doing fantastic today Tim. Can't complain. Hope everyone out there is doing fantastic as well.
0:44.0	This episode we're talking about things that sink in the ocean. I'm hoping that your mood has not sunk.
0:50.0	I hope it is floating into the horizon.
0:54.0	Yeah, yes to all that Lance. I am very excited to bring our listeners this interview with a fabulous author named Daniel Stone
1:06.0	who wrote this book called Syncable that is about the Titanic and the obsession with the Titanic,
1:13.0	whether that's finding it, raising it to the surface, owning it, truly a rich book with a lot of incredible stories.
1:22.0	Most of them center the Titanic wreck. Great description of that. Some people might be listening and thinking what does this have to do with True Crime.
1:29.0	I think what it kind of is adjacent to is how people have become obsessed with every element of the Titanic.
1:39.0	Daniel actually says that he wished that he reached that level of obsession because it's become some folks life purpose.
1:46.0	If you are a fan of the True Crime genre, you know how passionate people can be about particular cases.
1:52.0	It is a pretty interesting character study to look into yourself and to look and analyze someone else's behavior when they've just hyper focused on one thing
2:02.0	to the point where they have blinders on and this is the only thing that matters.
2:06.0	That's one element of it. Daniel does such a great job highlighting details that you never knew existed with the Titanic.
2:13.0	But he does such a great job introducing these new elements to you that will fascinate, terrify, amuse you, can't recommend it enough.
2:21.0	Yeah, most stories about the Titanic are about what happened right before its sank.
2:26.0	This book picks up where all those stories leave off and this is about the aftermath and how it's changed the culture.
2:33.0	It's just a fantastic twist on the story of the Titanic that we know so well and has endured for over a hundred years.
2:41.0	And in addition to sinkable Daniel wrote a book called the Food Explorer.
2:45.0	Just as fascinating we'll have links to both of those in the show notes and links to his website so you can follow him and make sure you stay up to date with everything that he's working on.
2:54.0	This is a top five book or something like that for me Lance. This is one of the best books I've ever read.
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