[chrononaut]

> Officials decided instead to open the door, and retrieve the men by raft and helicopter (see picture at the top of this article). While they wore biocontamination suits and entered the quarantine facility on the ship, as soon as the capsule was opened at sea, the air inside flooded out. ... that decision to prioritise the short-term comfort of the men could have released it into the ocean during that brief window.

Thinking about this, I am curious what the original procedure would've been. How did they plan on retrieving the astronauts, in a capsule on the ocean, without allowing the air inside to escape?

[yencabulator]

Lift it on a boat, connect a tunnel between the hatch and the quarantine area, leave that in place until end of quarantine?