What research group came out publicly about the acoustic pings? There was one news report suggesting that the false ping source might have been the bar fridge on the ship. I have not seen this stated as fact however. I've not seen facts asserted on this matter, other than a claim purported to be fact, that the ping detections were in error. If they don't know what caused the false pings by now, then might there be serious concern about their ability to apply rigorous scientific analysis?
They have a ship "Ocean Shield" towing a TPL-25 that has a limited detection range. They detect pings. Therefore it seems likely that no other ship would be close enough to be producing those black box pings. Hence the common hypothesis out there, that it's either the ship itself or the TPL-25 causing the false pings. If that's the case, then they should be able to repeat the test and reproduce the fault. But have they? They must surely reproduce the fault, as part of an exhaustive process of elimination of conclusive error. They are spending big dollars on this, so surely it warrants more than a wild goose chase.
Even if the false ping source was not from their own equipment, they need to repeat the ping detection tests to be confident of that. But have they ? If this is an open investigation, surely it would have been publicly stated that they are repeating their ping tests to ascertain the source of the supposed false pings.
Yet apparently the US Navy says this theory about false pings being produced by the ship is speculative.
Last edited by HeyIts007; 22nd Jun 2014 at 17:59.