Undersea Robots Find Plane Wrecked in 2009

[The.Bard]

Any....way.....can a black box Survive THAT much pressure for that long a time? Also, why don't they make those things buoyant?

In my 100% non-professional opinion, I'm guessing that a buoyant black box might float away on the tides and end up god-knows-where... assuming it gets loose from the wreckage (you don't want something that solidly built buzzing around the cabin exploding heads left and right like melons, so I assume it's locked down pretty tight)

I think finding a stationary plane on the ocean floor with the box near it is less difficult than a single black box floating on the waves. Unless it had some kind of identichip that they could use to locate it without requiring a power source. That would be pretty badass.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Any....way.....can a black box Survive THAT much pressure for that long a time? Also, why don't they make those things buoyant?

In my 100% non-professional opinion, I'm guessing that a buoyant black box might float away on the tides and end up god-knows-where... assuming it gets loose from the wreckage (you don't want something that solidly built buzzing around the cabin exploding heads left and right like melons, so I assume it's locked down pretty tight)

Why not strap it down with some strong Organic material? Something that will decompose (or slowly dissolve) in water and only get released a month after the plane has gone down, at which point it will float around for a year or two and ultimately wash up on a beach on a (hopefully) habitated island? Then the locals can inform the press who will inform the....airline people or whatever they are ecalled?

As for the odds: they could make a redundant drive that stays on the plane, in case the floater washes up on a deserted island instead?

 

[Thedutchjelle]

Any....way.....can a black box Survive THAT much pressure for that long a time? Also, why don't they make those things buoyant?

In my 100% non-professional opinion, I'm guessing that a buoyant black box might float away on the tides and end up god-knows-where... assuming it gets loose from the wreckage (you don't want something that solidly built buzzing around the cabin exploding heads left and right like melons, so I assume it's locked down pretty tight)

Why not strap it down with some strong Organic material? Something that will decompose (or slowly dissolve) in water and only get released a month after the plane has gone down, at which point it will float around for a year or two and ultimately wash up on a beach on a (hopefully) habitated island? Then the locals can inform the press who will inform the....airline people or whatever they are ecalled?

As for the odds: they could make a redundant drive that stays on the plane, in case the floater washes up on a deserted island instead?

The chance of a black box washing ashore of a habited coast is so tiny that it's not going to be worth it. Also, it could very well be that whoever finds it has no clue as to what he just found and discards it as trash/destroys it for parts.
For a black box to float, it either has to contain lots of air/light gas or it has to have a light container. I think both options are not viable for a box that has to survive nearly everything.