Originally Posted by
kilomikedelta
The salvage crew are professionals and have probably seen decomposing human copses before. It is unlikely that they would withdraw from the investigation for those reasons.
But this happened actually in this case. Members of the team of the GEOMAR institute (Kiel/Germany), who were, with their REMUS 6000, part of the crew who discovered the wreckage in phase 4, at first declined to participate in the salvage operation (the institute has also a ROV) exactly because of the psychological stress of the task. They subsequently changed their mind, but in the end their services were not requested.
These people are deep sea explorers and scientists - not used to this kind of task at all.