me. i m jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. and right now on andrea mitchell reports, search crews and loved ones fearing the worse for the five people on board the small submersible with the coast guard discovering a debris field within the search area. i ll speak to former u.s. commander in just a few moments. a district judge is about to unseal documents revealing just who paid the $500,000 bond to keep disgraced congressman george santos out of jail after he turned himself in on federal criminal charges, including money laundering and wire fraud. and president biden is scheduled to hold a joint press conference with india s prime minister modi as the administration hosts a controversial leader, an ally they hope could be a military and economic counter weight to china, but closely tied to russia, accused of widespread human rights abuses. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington, we ha
submarine, would you be going to 13,000 feet? no. these guys are going ten times deeper than we go. there s no real need on a military basis to go that deep. typically oil drilling, deep sea cable drilling and exploration here. what kind of training i know there s intensive military training, bit physiologically, what do you need to do to acclimate to those depths or is it so pressurized that, you know, that it does not matter? i think it s closer to your second statement. they re basically passengers. there s not a lot they can do. the pressures are so great that if something starts going wrong, they re not able human will, we want to think it can overcome obstacles and certain can overcome allot but it cannot
driving factor. there was some research that happened on these trips as well, and that $250,000 price tag presumably underwrote some of the research they said they were doing down at that depth, down at the titanic, and so but this was an adventurer s dream. fewer people have gone to that depth than have gone into space. so, you know, you look at the high dollar expeditions that are happening, they re into space, mount everest and really to the depths of the ocean are sort of the three pinnacles, if you will, of this adventure travel. these were wealthy people who were pushing the limits. they knew the risks and signed the waivers, and that was a above it, understanding this was a risky venture. of course, you know, there have been questions that we ve been hearing over the past few days about what exactly those risks were and if this submersible
markay this morning as well. the bottom line, captain, you said to me, navy subs don t go that deep, right? this is an experimental type of sub made of an experimental composite material going to a dhaepts could crush depths that could crush certain objects or containers? the purpose is different. we need to make submarines that are robust, can withstand combat damage and based on, a, design, b, operating procedures, and c, a mindset of continuous discomfort a mindset we re only safe if we re thinking that it s dangerous and if we re comfortable, we re missing something. and captain markay, in terms of what they had with them, they only had some water and some sandwiches because they thought they were going for a few hours, correct? yeah. but i don t think they re going to [ inaudible ] or die from the
theseow depths, considering allf the underwater cables that do all of our communications and natural gas and oil and everythingtu else that we live n and communicate over, it s just extraordinary that we don t have that ability. also with us now is oceanographer and deep sea explorer david gallow, thank yog for joining us in this what seems like a forbodable. what are your conclusions? well, in a way, it s very close to all of us. you know, this solution was the simplest solution that we heard that they had lost contact, someone else said heard an implosion right around the same time, which meant the sub was probably right over titanic and