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I love vivid, harrowing writing like this.

Despite seeing James Cameron's Titanic, I never pictured the ships themselves as being such an obstacle to survival.

This makes it feel so real. It's haunting.

Do you have anything more like this?

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The author of that article, William Langewiesche, has written several others in that vein:

- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-w...

- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/the-mecca-stampede-t...

- https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/06/us-airways-200906

- https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/01/air_crash200901

If you can accept Planes instead of Ships, Mayday is a good show that guides on through the accident investigations of plane crashes (from a short video of the crash with details removed, through the investigation process and then finally a short section on the recommendations issued)

It is the same show, but it has different names: Air Crash Investigation

Also (according to Wikipedia): Air Emergency (National Geographic Channel, U.S.) Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel, U.S.) Mayday: Air Disaster (Weather Channel, U.S.)

My TV Organizer names it Mayday, hence I use that name.

Sure, and Mayday is the original name. I was simply trying to be helpful to others who might have trouble finding it.

Some people find it scary, but I find it reassuring. The investigations always show an insane number of things that had to go wrong in a very specific way for the crash to happen. No engineering is perfect and things are going to fail, but watching those things shows how effective the swish cheese safety method is for 99.999whatever% of flights that never crash.

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