Feuer Frei.
From your wall of text....
Lets play numbers on costs .
If you ignore all the previous attempts at diving and all the previous operations on the wreck once located and all the additional cost in both planning and setting up setting up stage of the recovery operation...ignoring all that huge expense plus of course ignoring about two hundred other major costs on the operation itself...
So taking the cost of just 1 salvage ship, two tugs and two ocean going barges on the job but without taking their travelling costs into account.
How many more dollars were spent than the thimble full of mixed oils sold for?
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The draining and pumping of the oil from the vessel was more than likely just a enviromental protection deal.
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Spot on, any salvage operation is just a matter of course .....if it is going to show any profit.
Many oil recoveries from vessels are just a standard everyday proceedure....if costs and risk allow.
However, the only reason this very costly operation was undertaken was because the environmental damage on the lagoon would have been immense and the surveys showed that earlier diving operations to fix the leaks were not going to be sufficient do the job