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I don't mind emergency services being deployed, but they need to be evenly deployed. The higher priority was hundreds of drowning immigrants.
.. in an uncoordinated nighttime voyage on an overloaded unlit blind boat ..
In order to remain hidden as long as possible for a better chance to sneak into a country, they're doing about as many things wrong as possible, including severely impacting the ability of rescue craft to get onsite in time.
Is the biggest risk still hypothermia in the warmer climes, if victims don't drown immediately? Either case presents a really short window for rescue.
How do the same arguments not apply to the titan? It doesn't appear they were doing anything correctly either, it's just that the reason for it was negligence rather than desperation.
They were an ocean apart from each other and the deep-sea submersibles and hydrophones used in the Ocean Gate rescue would have been pretty much useless in the case of the refugee boat. So being upset about the resources spent on Ocean Gate is a bit unfair, it's not like they were facing an either/or choice.
I'm not saying it was a misapplication of the resources for one versus the other. I'm saying that an inequal amount of resources is applied depending on "cool factor" or wealth of the victims.