A near-miss - he was almost on the now-missing sub...

[Dien Rice]

Hi Trevor and Gordon,

I agree, it is sad we pay so much attention to this, and not to the deaths of hundreds of refugees fleeing oppression…

But - it’s that old saying…

Dog bites man - that’s not newsworthy… But
Man bites dog - that’s NEWS!

Refugees are dying every year, maybe every day…

But billionaires spending a quarter of a million each to see the Titanic… Who go missing… You don’t see that every day…

I look at it from a dopamine point of view…

Novelty stimulates dopamine… And we love the stimulation… (It’s human nature…)

We are always attracted to the NOVEL and the NEW…

I keep a file of such “unusual news” just to dip into every now and then…

Back to the sub…

It sounds like it was an immediate death. A rescue, of course, is better… But at least there was probably little to no suffering…

Dien

Originally Posted by trevord92

Everday stuff doesn't get reported much because it's common.

Outlandish stuff gets reported.

Maybe it's also a bit of the adventurer in us, wishing we'd been on the cutting edge of exploration, although personally the idea of being in a cramped space looking through murky waters at a wreck doesn't appeal.

But (callously?) there's probably a marketing lesson hiding behind the sad headlines.