Worse Than Titanic - May 29, 1914

On May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in fourteen minutes in the St. Lawrence River, killing 1,012 people, more passengers than the Titanic. She carried every post-Titanic safety upgrade available, and it wasn't enough. Two countries held separate inquiries and reached opposite verdicts. Then World War I began, and the world forgot. This is the story of what happens when a disaster has no clean lesson, no single villain, and no resolution, and what we lose when we choose to file it away.