Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
Can you have 'loose silt' under that pressure of water ? Even the engines weren't that dug in. Gives hope for finding the parts.
Theoretically you could have. The pressure applies on all sides where it touches an object. As the individual sand particles are not sealed watertight the pressure will also apply from below.
However, I agree it looks that the bottom is rather solid. The debris shown so far in the images is not buried at all. Especially even the heavy items like engines, gears etc.
So I'm also confident that the memory module hasn't been buried significantly.
On the other hand I'm also a bit at a loss why design a nice bright orange box of very specific shape and then loosely attach the important part as a rather small unremarkably shaped can onto it instead of including it into the box making the latter somewhat bigger and thereby even more easy to find !???
Somehow I have difficulties seeing the rationale behind it...