Quote:
Originally Posted by daepp
With ours or others' sub based listening abilities, do u think there r a bunch in the area looking for the 777. And do their methods increase the range if the ELTs etc? How close would they have to get to detect them? And what about towed arrays-I used to read naval thrillers by peter Robinson (anyone?) and they seemed able to find anything with some contraption they drug behind the ships.
I guess it's obvious I think, and have thought a along, it's in the water. But I'm a nobody in this department so I'm curious what the pros think?!!
|
subs take months to get on station.
the fundamental problem here is wide body passenger aircraft go 600 mph, give or take, and ships go 30 mph give or take. that means it takes a ship 10x the time to travel the same distance, or 100x the time to search a given area that the aircraft passed through. and you search at even slower speeds then you can travel at ....
for example:
we knew within about 10 miles where the titanic sank, took months and months of searching to find it.