Cave-diving is a thing. That rescue was a lot of cave-diving—and modern cave-diving is steeped in protocols, and innovation occurs within that context. Also I'm not criticizing developing a backup plan but doing it with a lot of publicity. That is a problem in rescue situations.+
My argument is that both cultures are innovative and disruptive—in different ways. More bureaucratic-seeming safety cultures are often quite creative and innovative. Giant risks for sure, kids couldn't equalize with full face-masks plus what appear to be some dosage of benzos?
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But remember, SpaceX *is* an example of that kind of culture too; SpaceX isn't typical silicon valley. In fact, it's probably the case that the cave diving community is *less* of a buracratic safety culture rhan SpaceX. Dry caving sure is. These just aren't good comparisons.
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You don't get to space consistently without serious amounts of buracracy, engineering, and paperwork. I'd be very surprised if the average UK cave diver did as much safety paperwork as the average SpaceX engineer. E.g. still arguing about checklists: http://www.scubaverse.com/is-a-pre-dive-checklist-overkill-for-recreational-divers/ …
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