A fishing boat crowded with migrants traveling from Libya to Italy sank last week. While hundreds are still missing and feared dead, it has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for five people.
Humans like stories, and the story of an impossible rescue in an extreme part of the world is just more interesting than “200 migrants died trying to cross the Mediterranean”. The story is already over once you heard that sentence. Humans love good stories with suspense where they don’t necessarily know what happens next.
Maybe it’s human nature that more unusual peril gets more attention.
Humans like stories, and the story of an impossible rescue in an extreme part of the world is just more interesting than “200 migrants died trying to cross the Mediterranean”. The story is already over once you heard that sentence. Humans love good stories with suspense where they don’t necessarily know what happens next.