This is a rooster teeth production.

One freezing January night, in 1949, thousands of people fled China in search of a better life in Taiwan.

Only hours later, under cover of darkness,

the ship carrying them struck another vessel, leaving more than 1,500 passengers and crew to fend

for themselves in open water. Ooh. Not good. Not good at all. But you know what is good?

I'm Charlotte. I'm Patrick.

Ahoy and welcome aboard Ship Hits the Fan, a podcast about some of history's most notable

uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas. Once again, hitting a topic that makes that intro

feel worse than ever. Yeah. Now read your funny. I didn't do a funny one today.

I know. I mean, it's charming. It's not without mirth.

You wrote a charming intro you're saying?

Yeah. It doesn't have to all be ha ha funny.

Okay. Well, yeah, most of it's not, I would say. I still think about what you said when people were saying, like, how is this going to be set apart from Black Box down?

And you said, well, people survive shipwrecks.

Yeah.

Well, sometimes we've got to cover one that a lot of people don't survive.

Yeah, I mean, it's still, you know, you're, I'd rather not be in either.

Personal.

You're a land.

Yeah.

Yeah. I don't want to be in a land. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't want to be in a land disaster either, though.

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