
The Titan submersible: when is tourism too extreme?
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The Cost of a Massive Rescue Mission
This is a massive rescue effort that is going to be enormously expensive and this mission was private citizens who knew it was super risky. The Coast Guard is incurring a lot of costs and all these ships, they're not coming there for free. Let's say, what are you going to pay? $10 million to save five people. That's $2 million a person. How many lives could you say going fresh water, buying mosquito netting, giving people vaccinations and things like that? I think it is a debate that we need to have.
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