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For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires' son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).

They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They've been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they'll make it?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would say that all reasonable efforts should be made to rescue or recover anyone and everyone who has gone missing. We can figure out the rest once we exhaust all optons, or have them back on the boat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reasonable efforts? Is it reasonable to send out several militaries and spend endless taxpayer money to rescue a bunch of idiots out joyriding?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To me it seems like a good "excuse" for an exercise for those militaries?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't give Russians any ideas or they'll use it next. "We didn't invade Ukraine, it's actually a rescue operation."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's literally what they said. They were rescuing people in the Donbas region from neo-nazis

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I agree. The value isn't necessarily the recovery of the individuals (though, cool bonus if possible.) The value is a real S&R mission for the parties involved, as well as data relating to how exactly the sub failed

Unrelated note, on the off chance that these people are rescued, I imagine reading these comment threads about this event is going to be fuckin WILD

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

There is value to the military to use this exercise as a training mechanism for future search and rescue initiatives like on military subs. The experience of doing a real search and rescue in extreme conditions is more valuable than a drill or simulation from what I’ve been told.