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How would you implement such a black box? Think it through and think about what useful information could you get from it.
by izacus 3y ago
How would you implement such a black box? Think it through and think about what useful information could you get from it.
- piceas 3y agoHave a bunch of them that release at regular intervals and float up to the surface. Where it is and what is wrong would be a good start.
- EA-3167 3y agoWhere it is sort of stops mattering when "what is wrong" is inevitably "It was either forced to surface" or "It's microscopic wreckage."
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoWhat is your plan for retrieving the 99.999% of them that indicate nothing is wrong?
- adolph 3y agoDue to an indeterminate crush depth of various electronic media, I would implement it as stone cylinders with chiseled data. The chisel would also act as a sonar signature.
- Arch485 3y agoWell, my main question was mostly _why_ it doesn't work (I may not have worded that very well). That said, presuming there was a way to make it work, I'd have it transmit all the available information about what's happening on the sub (respecting any technical limits). Then if the transponder stops sending data, you know something is wrong. Even if you don't know the exact location, knowing the last depth/speed the sub was at before losing comms, for example, is valuable. The caveat to all this is, like other comments said, radio doesn't work so well in salt water (which I didn't know).