Lost at sea - why are we obsessed with the sunken sub?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The world is watching a vessel we cant even find.
Newsrooms are counting down the hours of oxygen they think are left in the Titan capsule. International rescue teams are putting resources and lives at risk to bring back the missing five. What drives our obssession with this story? And how comfortably does it sit when we know thousands of people die at sea every year.
We hear from a former NASA Astronaut and accident investigator. We also talk to Spencer Matthews - his brother Michael died climbing Mount Everest - he explains the adventurers' mindset and tells us how important it was to bring Michael's body home.
Later we discuss the downfall of Crispin Odey - named the Harvey Weinstein of the City of London - by his alleged victims of sexual assault - with one of the women who broke the story, the Financial Times' Madison Marriage.
When approached by the Financial Times for comment, Crispin Odey denied the claims against him and a law firm representing Odey Asset Management declined to comment in detail on the allegations.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We start with that breaking news and Sky News understands a commercial submersible has gone missing near the site of the wreck of the Titanic. |
| 0:21.6 | We are tracking the search and rescue operation for that tourist sub headed to the wreckage of the Titanic. |
| 0:27.6 | If the sub is intact underwater, it may have only a day and a half worth of air left. |
| 0:33.6 | A board of the submarine, the pilot and four passengers who in 40 hours |
| 0:38.3 | no more oxygen. |
| 0:39.3 | The dominolec has disappeared a submerged that |
| 0:42.3 | ported the tourists to visit the rally of the Titanic. |
| 0:45.3 | A huge jolt of excitement this afternoon with claims |
| 0:48.3 | that signs of life have been detected in the deep ocean |
| 0:51.3 | where a tourist submarine has gone missing. You can hear how obsessed the entire world has now become with this story of the missing vessel, |
| 1:03.0 | named apocryphly Titan, searching for the Titanic, somewhere, anywhere in the ocean, up to 4,000 feet below the surface. |
| 1:17.7 | And we've thought long and hard about how and why we are all obsessing about this story |
| 1:24.0 | when we know that every day so many people die at sea. |
| 1:29.3 | But we wanted to try and get inside the mindset of what makes you get into a cabin, the size of a small minibus and risk your life. |
| 1:39.0 | And what makes other people come to your rescue. |
| 1:43.0 | Here's one man, Spencer Matthews, who understands how it feels. |
| 1:48.1 | Prior to this event, you know, offered a trip on that submarine to see the Titanic, I wouldn't |
| 1:52.7 | think twice about doing it. You do it. Same as kind of going into space, you know. You do it. |
| 1:57.7 | Love to, love to. Spencer Matthews' older brother died on Mount Everest, and Spencer filmed a documentary about trying to go to recover his brother's body. |
| 2:08.6 | So he knows what it sort of feels like. |
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