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There are finite resources out there for sea rescues. The argument is that they're being applied to 5 people on a pleasure trip instead of 500 migrants who pres
by taco_emoji 3y ago
There are finite resources out there for sea rescues. The argument is that they're being applied to 5 people on a pleasure trip instead of 500 migrants who presumably have much better reasons to risk their lives.
- EA-3167 3y agoThe resources intended to locate a deep sea submersible probably don't overlap with the resources needed to search for survivors in the Med. By the same token you could just argue that since both cases involved people who were certainly already dead, the pageantry of a search serves purposes other than efficient use of resources.
- dingusdew 3y ago[dead]
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoI imagine part of the government's involvement here is trying to test their own submarine detection and rescue tooling. There aren't otherwise many other real-world places to attempt them. I'm sure they've gained confidential valuable insights so far.
- kylehotchkiss 3y agohttps://archive.is/pSpem https://archive.is/pSpem The Navy heard it as it happened. Apparently they were aware of the loss of communications nearly in real time.
- mhb 3y agoThere are finite resources for everything. Why are these five people more worthy to be saved than the thousands of people who will die today from hunger?
- taco_emoji 3y agoThat's a very good question.
- BillWyeRex 3y ago[flagged]