[yellow_lead]

Just add a line. It's only 2 miles.

[darkteflon]

I’ve been wondering this too, and surprised that none of the news reports have addressed it. Would love to hear from someone knowledgeable on whether it’s feasible and what the limitations and trade-offs are (eg, unreasonably high risk of entanglement).

[prox]

Apparently having a tether is not a bad option. So what’s the reason they didn’t go for it?

[avereveard]

Possibly because they were closing in a wreck and a tether can get snagged

And I guess they were doing very close flyby, visibility down there is real bad.

[wingworks]

yep, they have to get pretty close to see much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwg2h7i4Ac

[atoav]

I could imagine the plan to go near or inside a sunken ship has to do with this?