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The Deepest Submarine Rescue (2021)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Roger_Mallinson_and_...

Thank you.

Came here to post the same. The Wikipedia article is impressive.

> At 175 ft (53 m) the submersible jolted to a stop – held at the maximum length of the nylon towline. The crew swung about in the sea currents until the rope snapped. The pilots immediately closed down all the electrical systems which left the sub in total blackness. They also managed to release a 400 lb (181 kg) lead ballast weight as they descended. They impacted the sea floor at 9:30 a.m., at a speed later judged to be at 40 mph (18 m/s; 64 km/h).[5][13]

I'm happy to see that this happened successfully. It reminds me of a counterfactual which is that there was a long-shot possibility by which the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia could have been rescued from orbit by another Shuttle crew, rather than sending them down to re-enter in the Columbia with its damaged heat-shield. No attempt was made to mount this hypothetical rescue but it would have been incredibly heroic: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue...

Really interesting read. It reads more like a due diligence thought experiment. Amazing that they went through the rigorous steps of analyzing just how challenging the entire mission would have been in significant detail after the first hurdle of getting the 2nd shuttle ready in time was found to be virtually impossible.

This type of Q&A article is so much less interesting than an actual piece of writing dedicated to the topic.

Not worth the time IMO, and I was excited to read after the recent deep sea submersible events.

480m deep. Somehow I expected it would have been much deeper.

In a movie it would have been. But only in a movie.

Also, one of the pilots would have been sleeping with the others wife.

Or one of the pilots was hot and female.

Or the mission was sabotaged by a psychopathic billionaire because they were about to spill the beans on his plutonium stash they had discovered on the seabed.

How am I doing?

As if rescuing from 480m was spectacular enough.

plenty deep to me. Imagine how much a column of water half a kilometre tall weighs

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