"6 miles under the sea, a remote-controlled robot probing one of the coldest, deepest ocean trenches on Earth blew apart. Scientists still don’t know exactly what happened off the coast of New Zealand. But they have a good guess."
The $8 million sub is a huge di$appointment.
"UK company to track jets after Flight 370 loss; Offer made for planes that have satellite service
Associated Press May 13, 2014
LONDON — The Boeing 777 with 239 people on board was en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8 when it disappeared. The plane automatically sent signals to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat after the plane’s transponder and its communication systems had shut down — but researchers were unable to find the plane before the batteries in the black box flight recorder shut down.
Malaysia’s government said the plane’s last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, and that the flight ended there. It has not been found.
Inmarsat PLC, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, which made its offer ahead of a conference in Canada on aircraft tracking, said it anticipated the adoption of further safety measures following the loss of Flight 370.
Hmmm.
The company said it would also offer both an enhanced position reporting facility and a “black box in the cloud’’ service that would stream historic and real-time flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder information when a plane deviates from its course. These would not be free.
Inmarsat PLC started out in 1979 as an intergovernmental organization that helped track ships at sea. It became a private company in 1999.
Its customers now include airlines, broadcast media, oil and gas companies and aid agencies....
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That was the last I saw of the Korean ferry, yeah.
I'm going to go missing for the rest of the night, but promise I will be back early tomorrow morning.
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