Salaries for the entire crew of a Coast Guard cutter (100+ people) for however long it took to find and retrieve him would be a big-ticket item. Plus all the fuel and other operational costs for the cutter, along with the same for a C-130 search plane, MH-60 rescue helicopter, and whatever other stuff they used.
Well yeah, it’s a huge hassle to put fueling stations in the sky. Very dangerous to stop for a top-up. And every year, dozens of stations are obliterated by planes travellings through clouds and other poor conditions. These tragic events are known as turbulence.
He should do it again if he managed to raise $144k for charity!
I mean that’s how much was spent on his rescue…
how on earth do you spend 144k to tow some air bubble back to the coast?
Salaries for the entire crew of a Coast Guard cutter (100+ people) for however long it took to find and retrieve him would be a big-ticket item. Plus all the fuel and other operational costs for the cutter, along with the same for a C-130 search plane, MH-60 rescue helicopter, and whatever other stuff they used.
Hiring a boat, a chopper or two and supporting a healthy military industrial complex.
Boat fuel isn’t cheap, and those ships are thirsty.
I need a cake = $
I need a wedding cake = $$$$
I need fuel = $
I need boat fuel = $$$$$$
checks out
how much for a boat cake? wedding fuel?
About tree fiddy
E: “and do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded w-”
“GIVE ME FUEL GIVE ME FIRE GIVE ME THAT WHICH I DESIREEE”
“damn it guys NOT YET!”
Ow, I just had surgery and you made me laugh so hard, my stitches do not find it funny. Carry on, though. o7
:D sorry
You’re forgiven. Do you have any super glue? J/k
It’s true. Boat fuel is just more expensive cuz it’s fuel they bought from the gas station and put by the water, unlike say jet fuel.
Well yeah, it’s a huge hassle to put fueling stations in the sky. Very dangerous to stop for a top-up. And every year, dozens of stations are obliterated by planes travellings through clouds and other poor conditions. These tragic events are known as turbulence.
in the arms of an angel starts playing
“In the arms of a buuubble, the weed flies away frooomm herrree …fell out the bilge hole…in the weedlessness that you fear …”
If you need it in a hurry, add 5 more $.
Aviation fuel, marine fuel. Spendy.