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Most people probably wouldn't know about the Titanic if it wasn't for the movie (leminal.space)
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I feel like there's been numerous other shipwrecks that are more interesting like the Eastland Steamer that sunk in harbor.

I was going to give the example of the Carnival cruise ship that sank in the 2010s (I think) largely due to the captain's incompetence but when searching for the name of it I just found a wild amount of other Carnival cruise ship shenanigans.

Either way maybe I'm underestimating the amount of trivia people know. Either way I feel like it would randomly pop up when Youtubers like Casual Navigation or documentaries cover it.

If you are reading this do you know much about the Titanic? Have you heard of the Olympus?

Bonus:

There's a mod for Mafia 2 that is attempting to recreate the Titanic. You can find it here. Youtuber minimme created a good video talking about it that's 24 minutes long you can find here. I'd recommend watching it if you are into Mafia 2, modding, the Titanic, or want to kill some time.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Dunno, I think it was already pretty famous. The movie likely increased its notoriety a bit though.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was already very famous because they called it unsinkable and then it sank on its maiden voyage.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

it was a topic at school for me.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Before the movie came out, the Titanic was probably the only shipwreck I had ever heard of.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

clearly youre not a child of the 80s... when they found the titanic it was a huge deal and was all over the media for years

anyone old enough to remember the 80s would know the titanic

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Also, that boat was full of rich folks and their belongings. There’s always going to be people who want to recover items from a boat littered with gold, jewelry, etc.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The statement is completely age dependent. Not too long ago(before the movie), it was pretty newsworthy any time the next group reported that they were trying to find it.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not too long ago

(before the movie)

Pick one. The movie was 27 years ago. Yes, really.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The movie was 27 years ago.

Bro, what did Millenials ever do to you to deserve such violence?

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

It sank in 1912. Length of time is relative.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 4 months ago

It already was pretty famous in pop culture before the movie. I guess that's one of the reasons how it got its budget approved.

It was popular in the 80s with references in Ghostbusters and Timebandits and that was easy to stretch on into the 90s.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What’s the timeline for when a fictional love story about 911 is acceptable?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If the Titanic is any indication, about 85 years.

[–] naticus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

!Remindme in 62 years

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Well, it took them 60 years to make Pearl Harbor...

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The location of the wreck wasn't found until 1985 and it was definitely still a popular disaster story to tell. I remember books about it in my elementary school library in the late 1980s alongside volcanos and dinosaurs.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Dear lord, no. That is not at all true. I am 51 and when I was a kid, the wreck of the Titanic hadn't been found yet. People were still fascinated. I remeber watching a movie called Raise The Titanic, which in turn was based on a best selling book. Why do you think James Cameron was obsessed with the Titanic?

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Have you heard of the Olympus?

If you're talking about the Titanic's sister ship, it was the Olympic, not Olympus. There was also a third ship in the same class called the Britannic which was also sunk.

[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

If you think the Eastland Steamer is a story you should check out the Cleveland Steamer.

Thought #2….maybe don’t.

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Which one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_Titanic

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was going to give the example of the Carnival cruise ship that sank in the 2010s (I think) largely due to the captain’s incompetence[...]

That's Costa Concordia. It received extra media attention and is mostly known due to the awful behavior of the captain who first directly caused the accident and then fled the ship before most of his passengers.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago

IIRC wasn't it also cause the higher ups cheaped out on personnel and hired a bunch of people who didn't speak proper Italian, let alone the same language, to man the boat?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

IMHO, that Eastland article’s last paragraph explains why people know about the Titanic. It was a bit glitzy boat full of important and influential rich folks. One of the world’s richest men died on that boat.

The Eastland was just a bunch of normal Joes. And just like today, the rich got much more attention.

[–] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

People may be forgetting about the Lusitania though.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

There's a reason "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" is a saying and "rearranging the deck chairs on the Eastland Steamer" isn't.