In this episode of Shipwreck Tales, Graeme Hill is joined by John McCrystal to revisit the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, Canada’s worst peacetime maritime disaster. Often overshadowed by the Titanic, the 1914 tragedy claimed 1,012 lives after a collision in fog on the St. Lawrence River. Hill and McCrystal unpack the events of that night, the conflicting accounts of the two captains, the desperate struggle for survival in freezing water, and the enduring mystery of why one of the deadliest shipwrecks of the modern era remains so little remembered.