Reality is always smarter and stranger than fiction. The tragic loss of the Titan echoes with another…

Reality is always smarter and stranger than fiction. The tragic loss of the Titan echoes with another populist project from the 1980s. Another ultra-rich-funded mission to the Titanic. /1 https://t.co/xijwuj9phl

Jack Grimm was a Texan millionaire who funded a mission to find Titanic. Good on him, but where the story gets delicious is the method he'd proposed to find the wreck. He had a trained monkey, that would point on the map where it believed the wreck to be. /2 https://t.co/lnc22iyPm6

The scientists on the mission reportedly gave Grimm an ultimatum. "Us or the monkey". The monkey was left behind. The name of the monkey? Titan. /end https://t.co/Sfy5EBFeWi