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Two things.
First, there are lots of unmanned subs can go much deeper than that, like 36,000+ feet deep. Manned subs, on the other hand, can't. There are only about 6 manned subs in the world that can go to 14,000+ feet.
Second, it's not about the families who lost. There are ways to retrieve the bodies, but what's the point. It's about not losing another plane to the same circumstances. It's about preventing the same fate for future families.
As for bringing up the plane, it isn't really about cost but practicality. If you can figure out what you need to look at, you can try to find and bring up just the pieces you need.
Right now the investigation needs 4 things: find the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder and bring those up. Find the "4 corners" of the airplane to see if it came down in one piece, and find the engines. Once you have those, you've got the best starting point you can have for the investigation of the physical aspects of the airplane.
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All of the airplane's parts are on Diego Garcia.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nope, they want to be irrational about it.
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I don't mind if they spend the money to put a guy on the moon.
However, hundreds of millions of dollars to get a tape of the co-pilot being threatened by the pilot is rather sick.
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MehGerbil wrote: hundreds of millions of dollars to get a tape of the co-pilot being threatened by the pilot is rather sick.
I think the relatives of the victims would likely disagree.
/ravi
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That doesn't mean they're right. Their objectivity is obviously compromised, so their opinion is basically worthless.
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Are you suggesting one can objectively place a price on a human life, then? If so, what would it be (in your opinion)? Next question: what if it were your own child's life? Hard and horrible question, I know, but that's exactly my point. 
/ravi
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We aren't talking about a human life here - the people were dead before the search even started.
But more to your question, yes, we can put a price on human life.
It may be crude but we do it on a daily basis.
For example, did you know if we reduced the speed limit on the Freeway to 25 MPH we could save gas AND save thousands of lives per year? At some point someone made the decision that the cost in human lives was worth the 70 MPH speed limit.
This happens with safety issues a hundred times per day.
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Meanwhile Russia is invading the Ukraine.... but dammit, let's find that plane!
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MehGerbil wrote: Meanwhile Russia is invading the Ukraine.... but dammit, let's find that plane!
Is there anything that can be done about that? It's not like the US would want to start a war with Russia over this.
John
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It's gotta be a QA question that caused this...
Amazon UK has a "special offers" page, holding eBooks they are giving away: £0.00p including delivery.
Now, I thought a couple of them might be interesting, so I bought them for my Android Kindle app.
And I've just had a series of emails from amazon thanking me for buying each one and giving me a voucher worth £1.19 because I bought a non-fiction ebook... 
I'm being paid to read books...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Probably time to get going with those HttpWebRequests. A million sounds like a nice round number.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Yes, this is kind of funny. You, that is not in desperate need of that offer take it up, and start to read. The people that normally fumbles around in Q&A won't. 
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Can you 'add up' the vouchers?
If you can - post the URL - I need money!
If not, then good marketing - you are just getting a discount against future purchases
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This story[^] is almost identical to something that happened to my wife.
Or at least his version of it is, hit car, thought there was no damage, later contacted by police, immediately admitted responsibility, contacted insurance, covered repairs of all damage.
She was taken to court, given 5 penalty points on her licence and a fine equivalent to two weeks wages.
It'll be interesting, to me at least, to see what action is taken against Balls.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I can't begin to describe how much I hate that man.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I expect his wife did it.
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He's got form. He did crash the economy previously. *politics end*
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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My parked bike was knocked over in the street by an old dear who got out of her car to see if she had damaged her car, she then drove away in front of witnesses one of whom left their details.
The police did nothing other than say they had 'spoken' to the woman - so I had to pursue the claim through my insurance company and have £700 of damage repaired.
I discovered that the police use 'discretion' quite a lot when it comes to these sorts of issues.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I never owned a bicycle worth anything near £700, never mind just the damage to one costing that much!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I never owned a car worth that much, let alone a bike.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Quote: Mr Balls said: "Ten days ago, I turned our car round in a tight spot in the private drive beside the Labour rooms in Morley.
If it didn't happen on the public highway then it's probably a civil matter.
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If the public have access to it then it is a road and traffic law applies.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You guys signing up? I just did, not sure why.
Snowden-inspired crypto-email service Lavaboom launches
http://www.lavaboom.com/[^]
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