I’m not sure that critical condition and serious condition are really OK. Hopefully they both pull through.

better than the alternative

I saw in a local article the exact location is approx 150ft deep… not sure if that is accurate or not but it was quoted several times.

NTSB is sending a crew of 10. They appear to be taking it very seriously as they should as a dual engine failure on a transport category jet is unheard of.
It was obviously an old aircraft, but if this happened on a pax plane the outcome would have been much worse.
Kudos to the Coast Guard for saving the crew.

How many pax planes out there still run JT8’s?
In places that we vaguely care about?

That's a far less technical dive, run of the mill commercial/salvage ops.

Could have been dual failure due to an issue which affected both motors... that would be significant but also pretty darn rare. Birds (Sully) or something like that BA triple at LHR.

Could also be that the "good" motor was tired and they inadvertently cooked it when they added thrust to compensate for the first failure. The timeline hints at that possibility.

I just don't think they could have run out of gas that quickly. Although an RJ a few years back managed to TO with just enough gas to get to the flight levels. They caught it barely in time, diverted, landed and may have flamed out on the taxi in.

Hoping. But since they both managed to exit the aircraft and hold on to floating stuff for a while I'm guessing they'll survive since they got to the hospital pretty quickly (that matters, a lot).

I can tell you the crash site is not zoned off to vessels. I Captain a charter boat, and transited the area today looking for any sign of the location/depth. Nada.

If its 150’ an advanced diver can hit it for a few minutes with no decompression required.

For something like this, commercial divers would use mixed gas. You could get about 10 minutes no-D with mixed gas... using professional tables. So still probably going to be a surface-supplied op.

I don't think you'd catch me going to 150' on air and coming back up without a stop... even though the mil tables probably say you can, barely.