Break from Politics: Our Fascination with the Titanic.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Taking a break from politics today, Bill goes under the sea to talk with author Daniel Stone about one of the most searched term in Google pretty much every day, “the Titanic.” Stone provides new insights into the fascination and, really, obsession with the Titanic. There are nearly 3 million shipwrecks in the sea, but there's none with more interest than the Titanic. Plus the latest information on what sunk the ship in the first place. Bill loved the book, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic and he thinks you will too. You can purchase it here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family. |
| 0:12.4 | And now, since all of our regular roundtable guests are all celebrating the long Thanksgiving holiday with their own loved ones, we bring you a very different kind of podcast today. |
| 0:23.7 | Very different and very special because it takes us away from all of the contentious politics of the day |
| 0:30.4 | and into the fascinating world of shipwrecks. Yes, shipwrecks. The most famous shipwreck of all, of course, remains the Titanic, |
| 0:42.2 | remarkable because it was the maiden voyage of what had been billed as the unsinkable |
| 0:47.7 | new ocean liner. But the Titanic's only one of thousands and thousands of shipwrecks, many of them also famous, |
| 0:56.0 | and hundreds of which, despite new construction materials and new technology, still happen every year. |
| 1:04.2 | Which raises all kinds of questions about whether they can be salvaged, |
| 1:09.3 | whether survivors or their families of victims are compensated, |
| 1:13.1 | and who pays for any environmental damage. |
| 1:16.6 | It's all the subject of a fascinating new book called Syncable, the latest book from best-selling author, Daniel Stone. |
| 1:25.0 | Daniel Stone, good to talk to you you and welcome to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:29.5 | What a joy to be with you. Thank you. All right, your new book, Sinkable, Obsession, the Deep Sea, |
| 1:37.6 | and the shipwreck of the Titanic. I loved it. I learned a lot from it. I was so impressed with your encyclopedic knowledge of shipwrecks |
| 1:47.4 | throughout history around the world, especially revolving around the Titanic, of course. So, |
| 1:53.4 | congratulations. Oh, thanks. But I have to say, so I finished the book, and then the next day, |
| 1:59.7 | I pick up the New York Times, and there's an article |
| 2:02.8 | in it about people today who pay $250,000 to go down in a submersible 2.4 miles to get a good |
| 2:16.2 | look up close of the wreck of the Titanic. Daniel, this happened |
| 2:20.9 | 110 years ago. Why the fascination still with a Titanic? This was the exact question that drove |
| 2:31.1 | the book in most of my research, trying to figure out why this one shipwreck |
| 2:35.9 | among millions of shipwrecks in the world, there are about three million, according to UNESCO, |
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