We are living a Brock Lovett moment.
Brock Lovett? Reel your memory back a quarter century. Summon the most dramatic moment in the 1997 film "Titanic." And recall what Brock Lovett, the "treasure hunter" played by Bill Paxton who searched for sunken ships, had to say about the captain of the doomed vessel:
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