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2 sea tragedies in a week and the way how world reacts

One grabbed unrelenting attention while the other discussed as a routine sad news story

File photo: US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District, talks to the media at Coast Guard Base Boston, in Boston. The saga of a lost Tital submersible that had gone into the depths of the ocean to see the Titanic wreckage rippled across the national and global conversation. But a far bigger disaster days earlier, the wrecking of a ship off Greece filled with migrants, didn't become a moment-by-moment worldwide focus in anywhere near the same way.

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