So they may find it - but my understanding is, even the US Navy doesn’t have any ability to go and get it. At least not in any reasonable time-frame.
True. Even if they were located yesterday, the chance of rescue are remote to impossible...................
Finding a huge hunk of wrecked metal - the Titanic - took years even though they had a position.
This thing is the size of a boulder, sitting on the ocean floor. You could look for a century and not find it.
“So they may find it - but my understanding is, even the US Navy doesn’t have any ability to go and get it. At least not in any reasonable time-frame.”
The Navy recovered a Seahawk helicopter from 3.6 miles.
Don’t the unmanned submersibles have a tether attached to them? I would think that this mini sub would have had a line attached to it in case something went wrong with the sub. I guess I would be wrong. Hope they can pull off a miracle and rescue the people. I would hate to think how it would be watching people die for lack of oxygen.