Episode 245: The sinking of the SS Atlantic - Part Two
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Disaster Area
4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In part two, we watch as the Atlantic continues to head toward the southern coast of Nova Scotia ... with dangerous consequences.
Videos:
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The Terrifying Wreck of the SS ATLANTIC (Halifax, 1873 - 150th ANNIVERSARY)
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A Visit to the SS Atlantic Heritage Park Interpretation Center, Nova Scotia
Articles and books:
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Atlantic’s Last Stop: Courage, Folly, and Lies in the White Star Line’s Worst Disaster Before Titanic, by Bob Chaulk
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Descendants of 'heroic people' mark anniversary of SS Atlantic wreck
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do dumb. |
| 0:03.7 | Hi, I'm Mike Rowe and I got nothing against celebrities. |
| 0:05.9 | In fact, I just interviewed Rob Lowe and Jason Alexander and they were terrific, but usually I interview people you've never heard of. |
| 0:12.3 | The plumber who makes $250 grand a year, the first responders who risk their lives to save complete and total strangers, |
| 0:18.6 | and the mad scientists who are about to change the world |
| 0:21.4 | with a better mousetrap. Those are the kinds of people I usually interview on the way I heard it, |
| 0:26.1 | and you're officially invited to give it a listen wherever you listen to podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started on the episode today, |
| 0:35.1 | I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. |
| 0:42.1 | For starters, paid requests are now reopened. If you're interested in submitting a disaster request, please double-check the list of requests I most recently posted to the podcast's |
| 0:47.2 | Facebook and Tumblr accounts to make sure your requests has not already been made. Also, |
| 0:51.9 | please look through past episodes to verify I haven't already |
| 0:54.6 | covered the disaster in question. To submit a request, you can send a donation of $30 or more |
| 1:00.0 | to the podcast, PayPal, at Disasterarea atmail.com, on Venmo at Disaster Area Podcast, or |
| 1:07.3 | on Cash App at Disaster Area Pod. Just add the name of the disaster to the notes on your |
| 1:12.3 | donation. If you have an idea for an episode subject, but you're not sure if it qualifies, |
| 1:17.5 | feel free to message me and I can approve one way or the other. I have a really open mind |
| 1:22.4 | when it comes to disasters I'm willing to cover. The other day, I was asked if I would cover the George Floyd protests, |
| 1:31.1 | and I said yes, so I'm going to be doing that sometime in the future. It's going to take a little bit. |
| 1:36.9 | There's a lot of information there, but that's the kind of thing that I am willing to cover. |
| 1:43.0 | Obviously, we have cats that is still on the list. So there's a lot of things that I am willing to cover. Obviously, we have cats that is still on the list. |
| 1:46.3 | So there's a lot of things that I am willing to cover as a disaster. |
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