[PGR88]

to further highlight some of the disconcerting facets of the submersible and OceanGate’s overall operation, including the fact that the craft—at least the one he went on—doesn’t have any kind of emergency location transmitter (ELT).

What kind of ELT would be able to transmit through 13,000 feet of ocean?

the US Navy has huge land-based antennae and very low frequency systems to communicate with submarines - which at operate at hundreds of feet. Nothing even close to these depths.

[politicket]

What kind of ELT would be able to transmit through 13,000 feet of ocean?

There you go...injecting logic and common sense into the discussion again...

[higgmeister]

If they have surfaced they wouldn't be found without the ELT.   As pointed out above, they cannot even open a hatch without help from the outside.