Someone posted above how losing contact part-way down was a normal occurance for these dives for this vessel.
That seems like maintaining comms was another “safety is just pure waste” issue for Stockton.
Thermoclines mess up deep sea communications to and from the surface.
I’d read that, too.
Woke meets high risk tourism.
i.e., Darwin Award. I’m sure that the lawsuits are already running off the printers...and it raises the bar significantly for the ‘space tourism’ nuts, including Musk.