Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I don't see why the US military budget is relevant.

A better discussion is how much does the USCG spend on rescues every year and also training. Does conducting rescues replace (or supplement) training, etc.? I would hope that there are post mortems for every incident that are reviewed and helps the USCG carry out its mission. How this incident will impact future explorations remains to be seen. I hope those who will conduct deep dives with submersibles will heed the lessons learned from the Titan.

And I think @Manatee Diver nailed it.

 

[Joneill]

The cost associated with the rescue mission has been reported to be around $1,200,000, and will likely climb a little higher than that. The US military budget in 2022 is $766,000,000,000.

If you graphed these on the same scale, and gave 1 pixel to the rescue mission, it would take 247 iphone 11 Pro Maxes to graph the military budget. I think calling it peanuts is pretty fair

Regardless, that is money that could be used for much better purposes than playing cleanup for a poorly thought-out private venture like this. These operations should be required have insurance or to reimburse the assets expended by any country that they needed to drag in to help.

 

[grf88]

I don't imagine that $1.2 million is anywhere near the true overall cost of the search and recovery by all involved, I might believe something closer to 10 times that.

 

[boulderjohn]

It's hard to understand how you can truly calculate the cost of an operation that involves organizations like the coast guard. The people being paid for the work they did on that rescue would be paid for whatever they were doing during that time.

 

[Wookie]

It's hard to understand how you can truly calculate the cost of an operation that involves organizations like the coast guard. The people being paid for the work they did on that rescue would be paid for whatever they were doing during that time.

Indeed, and the air assets are already paid for, the fuel is in some budget we can’t even fathom.

And the Coast Guard is DHS, not DOD.

 

[berndo]

If not, your opinion on how our government spends money is worthless - worry about your own country’s budget.

Feel free to worry about Germany's government spending. Your opinion is going to have as much impact on it as mine.

Regardless, that is money that could be used for much better purposes than playing cleanup for a poorly thought-out private venture like this.

What Wookie and John said. It's not like the planes and ships and personnal would have been free if they hadn't been out at sea. I reckon CG ships are out at sea most time anyways.
They got training out of it... which is probably what they wanted. As I said, they must have known that this thing had imploded.

 

[broncobowsher]

The cost associated with the rescue mission has been reported to be around $1,200,000, and will likely climb a little higher than that. The US military budget in 2022 is $766,000,000,000.

If you graphed these on the same scale, and gave 1 pixel to the rescue mission, it would take 247 iphone 11 Pro Maxes to graph the military budget. I think calling it peanuts is pretty fair

I was just watching a YouTube of Mike Rowe on an aircraft carrier. They were pulling a missile off an airplane. 3 people cradling it in there arms. Reported cost of that missile was a million dollars.

Now add in this value gained by using this as a training mission. So much stuff can be simulated or mock missions made. If nothing else they can compare there training missions to what an actual one went like and learn what flaws they have in the training that need to be corrected.

How may resources were put into recovering Kennedy after he sank his plane on the way to Martha's Vineyard?

 

[Joneill]

Feel free to worry about Germany's government spending. Your opinion is going to have as much impact on it as mine.

Why would I care about or comment on Germany’s government spending? I am not a German citizen and, other than driving a German car, I have no interests (financial or otherwise) in Germany. What Germany does is none of my business.

What Wookie and John said. It's not like the planes and ships and personnal would have been free if they hadn't been out at sea. I reckon CG ships are out at sea most time anyways.
They got training out of it... which is probably what they wanted. As I said, they must have known that this thing had imploded.

Even if true (just conjecture on your part, of course), it doesn’t change my opinion on requiring these private ventures to have insurance to reimburse taxpayers for costs incurred due to their their ill-engineered “expedtions”.

 

[Gone for diving]

Everyone gets to play with their new toys, everyone gets experience, learn what to do and what not to do.

It's like doctors, you want the best person when you have knee or hip surgery,, but the new doctors have to practice on the real thing to be any good, so as crude as it is, they work on an old person, and if it's not perfect well live with it, sometime they die a week, month later of other reasons and you think was that really worth it????
YES training, experience, and you never know, they may recover.


Then some kid comes in, the doctor has a clue what he is doing and will do a better job.

And it's the right thing to do.

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

With all the money at Stockton Rush's disposal, why not charter onto existing subs instead of a haphazard build? Or hire people in the field to assist his own endeavor?

Some people, and I've worked for a few of them, consider themselves Mazters of the Universe(R) and nobody else can conceptualize - or do - anything better than them. Becasue they're the smartest guys in the room.

I would guess, if I had to.