• obsoleted@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Compared to story about yet another ship carrying illegals that deliberately sank, it is not that often that you hear about a “homemade” submarine that disappeared somewhere near the Titanic. And, in this case, it is/was a race against time to try and find the submarine, therefore we see frequent updates in the news.

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      1 year ago

      Understandable that a race against the clock (that I think they’ve most definitely lost) makes for more novel news, so I’m not surprised that it got more coverage. It’s also very fair to be angry that five billionaires on a pleasure trip are visibly more important than 400+ poor. “llegal” people are still people and they suffered and died the same in an effort to live safely, which literally everyone wants.

      There’s nothing in this article or others I found that suggests it was deliberate, either. It seems to have been an accidental capsize.