[LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why are they using flash drives that sink?
>

Because creating something that is able to withstand the forces of a crash,
and then have sufficient battery power to "ping" for several months (or
more), which is also capable of floating, is extremely difficult...

And of course, that presumes that it was able to be detached/ejected from
the fuselage itself in some safe way, otherwise even if the black box
floated it'd still end up on the bottom of the ocean.

  Scott