Barack Obama questions why Oceangate Titan sub tragedy bought MORE protection than refugee boat sinking

Barack Obama has questioned why the Titan sub tragedy that killed 5 males has obtained wall-to-wall media protection – whereas a ship sinking with 700 refugees on board has been ignored.

The previous president drew the comparisons whereas talking on the Stavros Niarchos Basis in Athens on Thursday, hours earlier than the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the submersible imploded.

He stated it’s ‘untenable’ that the doomed expedition bought extra consideration than the hundreds killed when a fishing trawler capsized 50 miles off the coast of Greece.

The overcrowded boat with tons of of Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian refugees went down on June 14 – two days earlier than the $250,000-a-head OceanGate tour to the Titanic wreckage was reported lacking.

Eighty-two passengers have been discovered lifeless, 104 out of the greater than 750 on board have been rescued, and the remainder are nonetheless lacking. Greater than 100 kids are among the many lacking.

Barack Obama has questioned why the Titan sub tragedy that killed 5 has obtained wall-to-wall media protection – whereas a ship sinking with 700 refugees on board has been ignored

‘There’s a potential tragedy unfolding with the submarine that’s getting minute-to-minute protection all world wide,’ he stated. 

‘That is comprehensible as a result of all of us need and pray that these of us are rescued.

‘However, the truth that this has bought a lot extra consideration than the truth that 700 folks sank is an untenable state of affairs,’.

The Worldwide Organisation for Migration referred to as it one among ‘the worst sea tragedies within the final decade’. 

Obama additionally introduced up the parallels in an interview with CNN earlier on Thursday.

When speaking about how democracies cannot thrive with excessive ranges of inequality, he used the sub tragedy for example.

‘In some methods, it’s indicative of the diploma to which individuals’s life probabilities have grown so disparate.’ 

On Thursday it was revealed the 5 inside OceanGate’s Titan had been killed immediately when the submersible suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ simply 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic 

The overcrowded boat with tons of of Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian refugees went down on June 14 – two days earlier than the $250,000-a-head OceanGate tour to the Titanic wreckage went lacking. It’s pictured earlier than capsizing  

Medical staffs carry a survivor of the fishing boat tragedy on a stretcher exterior a warehouse on the port in Kalamata city

Obama performed the speak and interview whereas in Athens with spouse Michelle and two daughters Malia and Sasha. On Wednesday they visited the Acropolis to get pleasure from some downtime.

On Thursday it was revealed the 5 inside Titan had been killed immediately when the submersible suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ simply 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic.

The voyage took them 12,500ft underwater the place few rescue vessels would be capable to discover it. 

The victims are OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French Titanic skilled Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, who was simply 19. 

A remotely operated submarine from a Canadian ship discovered particles on the ocean ground.

Shahzada Dawood, 48, a UK-based board member of the Prince’s Belief charity, and his son Suleman Dawood, 19, perished within the tragedy

A satellite tv for pc picture reveals ships participating within the search and rescue operations related to the lacking Titan submersible close to the wreck of the Titanic

It is probably the lads died Sunday, earlier than navy planes utilizing sonar buoys detected what they thought may have been SOS ‘banging’ sounds within the water. The US Navy stated they heard a sound in keeping with an implosion when communications had been misplaced round two hours after they dived. 

The Navy handed on that data to the Coast Guard, an insider stated.

The migrant boat sinking in one of many deepest areas of the Mediterranean Sea sparked a large rescue operation that concerned a 300ft megayacht.

Coast guard, navy and service provider vessels fanned out for an enormous search-and-rescue operation that additionally included a airplane and a helicopter to rescue those that had been making an attempt to journey from Libya to Italy. 

Harrowing photos confirmed medics speeding the survivors off the yacht onto stretchers, whereas others walked round barefoot and draped in blankets.

Ladies and youngsters had been probably trapped within the maintain because the vessel overturned and went down within the early hours of the morning, which may make the sinking one of many deadliest ever within the central Mediterranean Sea.

9 survivors been arrested on suspicion of individuals smuggling – together with the ship’s captain – as consideration turned to Greece‘s failure to behave earlier than the overcrowded vessel capsized.