Missing 777

[buickanddeere]

Triangulation works fine when signal propagation travels through an unchanging consistent medium.
Stratified sea water of varying salinity and/or temperature reflect or "tunnel conduct" sound. Even "super conduct" or attenuate signal strength just by moving the pinger or hydrophone a few hundred feet..

 

[buickanddeere]

The sensitivity of US and Soviet listening devices? As the US has been searching for MH370, they can tell it was curry night on a Chinese ship 200 miles away.

 

[dragoneggs]

Maybe 100/50?

You talking about eyesight?

 

[robbyr]

You talking about eyesight?

My bad. Thought this was the ophthalmology thread.:laughing:

 

[Egon]

Glomar Explorer goes mining again?

 

[Egon]

Those inertial gyros are spinning for a reason.

Straight lines but no distance!

 

[MossRoad]

Glomar Explorer goes mining again?

Yea, I was thinking that too... maybe we can find the next generation patriotic eccentric billionaire to resolve this for us.

 

[smstonypoint]

Yea, I was thinking that too... maybe we can find the next generation patriotic eccentric billionaire to resolve this for us.

The Explorer is still around, and if this info( GSF Explorer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) is up to date, she's in the Bay of Bengal.

Steve

 

[MossRoad]

Looks like its been converted to more of a drilling rig now. Wonder what happened to the grapple?

 

[buickanddeere]

Looks like its been converted to more of a drilling rig now. Wonder what happened to the grapple?

The grapple broke. It was made out of the wrong alloy that was high tensile but brittle . Needed to be to have some ductility at 32F.