I believe Dan Dalton originally asked the question, and implied that it was some sort of logical flaw, since the ROV Snoop Dog is probably too small to lift the safe.

The film cuts from a close-up of the safe to it being winched onto the deck of the Keldysh, so whatever happened occurs within the edit.

If Snoop is too light to lift the safe, it can tie a tow rope from one or both of the submersibles, which then can drag the safe out of the hull. Not elegant, but it works; plus, there's also the second ROV Dunkin' to assist in the operation.

The builder of the ROV Western Space and Marine now has a website.

-- Thomas M. Terashima (tom@nucleus.com), March 10, 1999

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I always wondered about that.

-- Nonnie Parker (x96smock@wmich.edu), April 20, 1999.