Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers
It is notable how much news-coverage this received (for understandable reasons [1]) relative to the almost simultaneous disaster in the Mediterranean [2], where a shipwreck killed hundreds of people.<p>[1] What springs to mind: Dramatic search action well suited for live blog coverage; psychological impact of the idea of people stranded in a submarine for days; And of course the average person here is probably a lot closer to taking a holiday trip in a submersible than to taking a refugee boat across the Mediterranean.<p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_dis...</a>