Interesting.
and yes... there is something very warming about old adversaries working together to locate this sub and settle the mystery.
Patrol on, shipmates.
I hope we can help the Russians and Japanese with some of their ship losses, too.
It's almost like a last outpost of chivalry. When Kursk blew up due to the stupidity of Russia's civilian and military leaders, one American submariner said he'd happily blow their sub out of the water in a war, but would risk his life to save his brother submariners in a peacetime accident.
If their leaders hadn't been such paranoid buttheads, they might have saved the few that survived the initial explosion of their half-baked "wonder weapon".
There was a strong mutual admiration between submarine rivals
I know that it is "warming" to think that Russia is no longer an adversary. They are still our adversaries.