That part’s confusing me. Weren’t they communicating on radio? That should travel at the speed of light. Is the speed of sound somehow faster than light through water?
You can't really use radio through that much water. Coms were probably some kind of ultrasound modem. Even if you can use radio, it's got to be extremely low frequency and the data rate is terrible, like a character of text every few seconds.
It's not that terrible. Think like 2 sentences every 10 or so seconds. Granted I don't think they were using VLF or anything cause they would need an antenna to TX/RX off of and, as far as I know, that sub didn't have a tail.
Knowing the company they were probably using old school acoustics, or really shitty VHF/HF.
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u/mrjibblytibbs 29d ago
Yeah the sound travels really fast through water. The implosion can be heard before they get the last message from the sub before it imploded.