Presumably for the same reason that Mountain Rescue teams still bring bodies down.
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It is an expensive retrieval... not sure it is really in the public interest.
It is just optics really, let's be honest.
On a related note, my DB feed appears to have gone full on Talkback with the memes and shit.
Including a terribly inappropriate thread about imagone being stuck in the sub and someone who's out a guitar to raise spirits.
Cue the darkly humorous inappropriate song titles. Knowing some of the key contributers as I do, I'm a tad surprised. But mostly amused. I'm burning anyway.
Ordinary man loses touch with his support boat while swimming the channel. Search soon gets called off. Billionaire goes missing on pleasure jaunt to the wreck of the titanic. Global news, every possible avenue explored.
You know how this stuff works.
To be fair the Titanic has huge public interest. It's not that there's a millionaire onboard that is making it newsworthy.
Do you have any idea how expensive daily SAR operations are, including retrieving bodies? The only difference is that you're hearing about this one, for a few reasons.
I don't imagine anyone said or implied any different.
£69,000 per day for mountain-based. Deep-sea operations come in at £345,000 per day. So quite a big difference, especially as this one will take weeks if not months, rather than days.
You do know that there are SAR operations at sea every day, right? We can't just decide not to do them because they're a bit expensive and because the victims are rich dumbasses.
If you ever get the chamce to have a beer with our resident former SAR pilot I recommend doing so, he's excellent company and has some stories to tell.
Apparently they've found signs of a debris field in the search area. So it may be that there isn't much to recover in the end.
Pretty sure the sub imploded. The general consensus was that it wasn’t really designed to get to 12,000ft. So one crack and they are goners…
If it was any other reason you would assume that unless they had really good air scrubbers then they would have succumbed to CO’2 poisoning anyway.
Look on the bright side the way the ice is melting the sea is going to reclaim us all anyway.
Chicago: Taking swimming lessons.
Weird about the regular tapping noises that were supposedly detected. Unless the sub perhaps only imploded in the last 24 hours.
Saw people saying it could have been anything, like a bit of the titanic clanking in the current. They didn't really say it was if it was a pattern like a distress call.
I’m surprised that nob who said he’d find Nicola Bulley in the River Wye didn’t turn up.
They're reporting that pieces of the submersible have been found in the debris field. So that's probably that.
