ThatDogDontHunt
Oscar Meyer Weiner
Maybe we can look at the concept of a support team from a different angle?Eagles Nest was a Cascade of mistakes that started before they entered the water. Support wouldn't have changed anything.
Things like space flight, test pilots and the deep french divers (video above? Or is some other recent thread) involved a very large "support team". The support team was not simply a passive role that people seem to consider the deep dive support divers to be. In these other activities the support team played a very active role well before the attempt was started. They helped define / refine procedures, discuss potential failure points, help decide risk mitigations, provided QA that process and procedures were being followed. An astronaut is simply 1 person in a very large team. They become the star, but they did not accomplish the goal by themselves. They could easily be replaced by a different astronaut.
These deep dives seem to ignore the need for a proper team? Think doctor deep...
Maybe utilizing a proper support team would have detected the Eagles Nest mistakes and stopped (or altered?) that dive?
Otherwise are these deep dives just Russian Roulette using scuba gear?