Spanish/Egyptian. Where the person who was supposed to be a Scot had a Belgian accent.
I'm quite fond of the Bond film where he was disguised as a Japanese man, and all the actors pretended to be fooled. 6'2", with chest hair poking out of his kimono, an obvious wig, and speaking broken Japanese with his typical Scottish brogue. "Arigatoo gozzzimash"
Its practically impossible to do satellite to undersea communications. Being underwater does all kinds of hell to RF signals. Even just reliably doing undersea to surface communications is pretty tricky.
Is your phone waterproof? Stick it a sink full of water. Watch it lose all network connectivity.
I wonder what the drift would be like if you released a buoy 2 miles below the surface. You could theoretically have the last estimated location of the sub, but even then that's largely an estimate as its not like the sub actually has a GPS fix its all dead reckoning.
They already know about where the sub should be, somewhere around the Titanic wreck. If an untethered buoy pops up a few miles away, does it really do much to help clue you into where they are? And if its not much to put a tether on the buoy, why not just have the craft be tethered from the start?
I tried to research, but it's not clear. It says the gulf stream can reach 5mph, but also that that is near the surface, and it's slower the deeper you go.
A buoy ascends at 2.8 m/s. 3000m would yield, meaning about 18 minutes of rise time.
If we assume that water is at max speed the whole way through, we'd be talking about 1-2 miles.
Realistically, because most of its rise is in deep sea conditions, I imagine it'd be less than 1 mile.
But, if it made contact as soon as it reached surface with a GPS location, I'm sure some scientist could calculate about how far it drifted from the water conditions. I'd imagine they could get it down to a few hundred foot radius?
I would expect some e2e encryption satellite communication, however that might be still traceable to the enemy listening posts.
Man, I now need to watch "Hunt for Red October" again [0]. lol
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2tE7vjdHk