floofloof , 6 hours ago

Amid all this attention to this one accident involving wealthy people, let’s not forget the thousands of poor people who drown in the Mediterranean each year:

Number of recorded deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea from 2014 to 2024

In 2023, it was estimated that 3,105 migrants died while crossings the Mediterranean Sea. As of May 2024, 880 casualties were recorded. However, the accurate number of deaths recorded in the Mediterranean Sea cannot be ascertained. Between 2014 and 2018, for instance, about 12,000 people who drowned were never found.

Somehow we don’t hear much about them, but rich people dying at sea provokes days or weeks of media coverage.