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		ceejayoz 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found ... The ones that aren’t accompanied by a surface ship are military, and they really don’t want anything that might automatically deploy at the wrong moment.

waste_monk 21 days ago [–]

This was part of what complicated the response to the Kursk disaster - they had a rescue buoy but it was welded in place so it couldn't deploy.

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