Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
I think the procedure for retrieving data from a recorder that's had a swim in the sea is pretty well practised by now, as we saw with the recent Air Niugini B738, whose recorder was flown 1200 miles to Port Moresby before the memory modules were carefully removed and decontaminated.
DaveReidUK is right. These days are not like the old days - FDR/CVR is written to solid state memory modules and doesn't necessarily need to be 'transitioned' from retrieval depth to surface depth.
In all honesty, these days, it feels more like the most protection that FDR/CVR Modules need when recovered is to keep them safe from "those that might seek to do them harm" before data can be retrieved and analysed. A sad state of affairs.