TWO pieces of equipment...
1 A PLB, Personal Locator Beacon device.
2 A PFD, Personal Flotation Device, aka a Life Vest.
IF, the SEALS did not have either of these on their person, their chain of command is guilty of MANSLAUGHTER and MALFEASANCE, which is also known as... DERELICTION OF DUTY!
Ditto - back in the day, we would look for a red flash light to pick them up; wasn’t easy
Obama sent 20 Navy SEALs to their deaths ABOARD ONE COMMERCIAL GRADE (NOT MILITARY GRADE) HELICOPTER on 11 Aug 2011. ALSO on board were two Afghanis whose flight manifest names DIDN’T MATCH THEIR ACTUAL NAMES. Our gov’t LIED and said the data recorder got swept away in a flood. Later it was proven there WAS NO FLOOD.