>> None of them can save themselves (climbing out is not possible), they
>> have to be winched out one at a time.
>
> Assuming all are equally rescuable, start with the lightest, and while
> that's happening, look for an alternate solution that allows more than
> one at a time to be rescued, or look for a way to deal with the flooding.

That's a good call to start with the lightest - IIRC they were given no 
details about the speed variability of the winch (this was a task set by 
HR rather than the engineering team!), but it's possible it would go 
faster with a lighter load. It certainly wouldn't go slower.

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