The loss of the Titan – the submersible carrying five people down to the bottom of the Atlantic to view the wreck of the Titanic – this week has once again reignited public fascination with the so-called “ship of dreams”.
In the run-up to the centenary of the disaster in 2012, I published a nonfiction book, Shadow of the Titanic, which investigated the origins of our ongoing obsession, as well as how the experience of the sinking shaped the lives of the survivors.
