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The depth of the problem
All commercial transport aircraft are fitted with underwater locator beacons to assist in the relocation of black box flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. These beacons are free-running pingers that transmit signals at an acoustic frequency of 37.5 kilohertz and have an expected battery life of 30 days. The scale of the challenge in locating the black boxes is immense.
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Because of the pressure we don't know squat about our own oceans. The amount of underwater species that we haven't yet discovered is probably massive.
most suggestive infographic I ever saw
Good luck with that!
The pressure is huge on such depth.
Yup, it`s around 450 atm