ICYMI - Why the Internet Couldn’t Get Enough of the Missing Submarine
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim parse out this week in #OceanGate, when a 5-passenger underwater vessel heading for the Titanic went missing. The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed all five passengers are presumed dead following a “catastrophic implosion,” but the internet remains obsessed and desperate for more answers. We take a look at OceanGate the company, why someone would sign up for this voyage, and how four days of unanswered questions turned into millions of tweets, memes and TikToks.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:44.3 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:47.6 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:49.1 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:51.6 | And I'm going to be completely honest, we don't have time to do some |
| 0:55.0 | fun little banter today because we've got breaking news to report. |
| 1:05.1 | Except it's not actually breaking because after many, many, many days and hours of speculation, we know what happened. |
| 1:13.3 | And when you say what happened, you do mean the submarine that captured the attention of seemingly |
| 1:19.4 | everyone in the world. |
| 1:21.9 | Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. |
| 1:23.0 | Technically, it's not a submarine. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm going to walk actually you and tell you that it is a submersible. |
| 1:29.8 | I will explain the difference later, but yes, I am talking about the Titan, a 22-foot-long |
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