Part of the delay was that the sub company staff waited for eight hours until notifying anyone outside the group that they lost contact with this thing and until 11 Monday morning or a day afterwards to tell the Coast Guard about it. Maybe if they had some 50 year old Navy vets on their staff this thing could have been resolved sooner.
Yes, that is why I separated it out. There were two kinds of delays. And both could have been caused by the fact that those in the know knew it would be of no use.
I am not sure we have been told why the big delay from the Coast Guard, Customs, or whatever it was holding up the machinery once the problem was known.
I understood that the dive was to last a total of 10 hours. 2 hours down, 6 hours of loitering, and 2 hour return. They lost communication at 1h,45min into the dive and waited the remaining 8 hours to see if they returned.
As it turns out, and most Freepers rightfully assumed, the initial loss of communication was due the implosion. They could have waited until the cows came home and none of would have made a rat’s ass of a difference.