Text 18539, 46 rader
Skriven 2011-05-10 13:09:28 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 18519 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Re: Black boxes and OBL (was: OBL)
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Bob,
 
RB>WD> The POTUS-election is still 18 months away and Bin Laden will be
RB>WD> forgotten next week with a once-per-year regurgitation.
 
RB> I think you're being too negative, but we'll see.
 
I only was refering to the effect on the 2012 Presidential elections. It's too
far away in future to really be influenced by this ... I think.
 
RB>WD> That hey found and retrieved those 2 black boxes from that Air France
RB>WD> plane that crashed somewhere in the southern Atlantic.
 
RB> I noted that too, and hope the tapes will provide enough information to
RB> determine exactly what happened. Such things are difficult enough to
RB> clear up when the wreck is easily accessible. In this case, it's a wonder
RB> they managed to find it at all.
 
Not really a wonder, it just takes resources (hardware and money) to do so.
 
This is the result of French financing and Wood's Hole know-how.
 
We have a pretty good idea what the bottom of the ocean looks like and "where"
"what" can be found if the grid is made big enough. Every wreck (ship and large
airplane) leaves a debris-trail. One doesn't need to find the wreck itself, in
most cases the debris-trail will lead researchers to it.
 
This is what happened with Titanic. This is what happened to Bismarck,
Scharnhorst and Hood as well. They all were discovered by their debris trail.
 
In the case of Bismarck Bob Ballard wanted to keep the location secret out of
respect for those that went down with it.
 
However, in his book he mentionned they found it on the slope of an underwater
extinct volcano. It was widely known there was only 1 underwater volcano
thousands of square kms around in an otherwise flat bottom and a British team
dove straight to it without even searching. They knew where to go based on that
one sentence.
 
That's why you will hear very little description on the surrounding of the
AF447-wreck.
 
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