Life-saving equipment for Titanic sub search caught in red tape, Explorers Club says

[Effete Snob]

82. Then I don't see the point

They are not designed to survive at a depth of 2 miles where the pressure is 400 atmospheres. This would have to be a one-off design. An ordinary EPIRB is designed to release automatically in a couple of feet of water, because it is attached to something that is not supposed to go underwater in the first place.

So, this specially designed radio beacon is attached to the exterior but is released how? Manually, through some kind of feed-through to the outside? Or automatically, under detection of some sort of condition again involving the operation of a mechanical release mechanism to let it go, and hoping that this system does not fail with the vessel systems generally.

Then, once released, it is hyrdrodynamically designed to go straight up through the entire pressure gradient, and does not tumble or have any surfaces that deflect it from a straight vertical path. Because, again, at a depth of two miles, this thing is not going to indicate the location of the vessel when it reaches the surface.

Then, once it reaches the surface, it does not drift with currents or winds, but remains for many hours directly over the vessel location.

Is that the general idea, or am I missing something?