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>As explained in the 2022 PEA and
LOC, for all landing events in the ocean, if debris is generated, SpaceX expects the majority of the
Starship debris would sink because it is made of steel and will have sufficient mass to sink to the
seafloor (U.S. Navy 2022). Debris is expected to sink within the nominal landing location (240 nm east
of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument) and is not expected to drift into the
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Some lighter items (e.g., items not made of steel,
such as composite overwrapped pressure vessels) may float but they are expected to become water
logged and sink. Though not expected and unlikely, if there is floating debris found by the vessel
during the debris field survey, SpaceX would sink or recover any floating debris before it could drift
into the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument by physically removing the item or
puncturing the item to cause it to sink.

>As described in the 2022 LOC, any aircraft and surveillance vessels (watercraft) described above would
comply with the Project Design Criteria (PDCs)’s environmental protection measures for vessel
operations and/or aircraft procedures

Oh no! Someone think of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument! A random fucking body of water we just decided to make into a monument to make it harder to do anything around it!

I fucking hate this kind of environmental cuckery the US has subjected itself to, its absolutely holding us back, generating needless excess work, its no surprise that environmentalism and bureaucracy are total bedfellows and go together like peas in a pod, its disgusting to me, the Pacific is a big ass ocean why is this are of it more special than any other, this kind of arbitrary bullshit that just roadblocks or causes a pain in the ass in operations like this, its disgusting. Enviro/ESG fags need to be pulled down a notch they are power hungry and greedy.