Survivors of the Greece boat disaster say an attempt by the Greek coastguard to tow the boat made it sink.

  • buster_de_beer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There is absolutely something wrong spending millions on the search and rescue of a bunch of idiots who signed disclaimers and could easily have paid for a safe sub several times over. It’s not the equipment used that is the issue it’s the effort at all. Those billionaire morons simply don’t deserve the effort, nor does it make any sense to have even tried. Unless their estate is footing the bill, but that sounds far fetched.

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      1 year ago

      Here’s something you need to consider though. We need a well trained Navy and Coast Guard. It’s kind of a necessity that those guys know how to perform water rescues and can perform them well. And it’s for that reason that they actually use events like this for training when they can. Obviously this is extraordinarily rare, so typically they stage trainings for deep water recoveries instead. This is more useful, more real training than the latter option. Likely no one is going to need to pay for the recovery because it’s built into the Navy and Coast Guards budgets set aside for training that would have otherwise paid for a staged recovery. Only this time, they were able to use an actual disaster as a training opportunity. They likely knew, or we’re at least confident that the sub imploded on that Sunday but still spent 4 days on the recovery effort partly to train and partly to get additional evidence to confirm their suspicions.

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      1 year ago

      Okay, let’s assume for the sake of argument that it’s “okay” to just let people die because you don’t like them.

      What about the 19-year-old kid who was on board the sub, who didn’t really want to be there but who was trying to please is dad for Father’s Day by accompanying him? Screw him too because you don’t like his father, I guess?