{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Titanic - Part 1: Prestige and the illusion of safety","description":"The Titanic was built to be a floating emblem of progress, but pride in steel can be as fragile as trust in luck. As passengers stepped aboard, they entered a world convinced that disaster was a thing of the past.\r\n\r\nBut the sea, and the systems meant to tame it, had other plans. In nineteen twelve, the White Star Line unveiled Titanic—a vessel of nearly nine hundred feet in length, boasting over forty-six thousand tons of confidence. The ship was advertised not just as modern, but as virtually unsinkable. Brochures, dinner parties, and headlines repeated it so often that the word itself became a kind of spell. Safety was a matter of faith, and faith was built into the ship’s design. Yet beneath the grandeur, the arithmetic of risk was quietly off-balance.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/titanic","author_name":"The Archive Network"}