Quote Originally Posted by rs3100 View Post
The sad thing about this is it implies that the plane went down quite close to the islands. To send a search and rescue/recovery diver down the maximum depth is 50m. I don't know the waters around the channel islands well, but think it exceeds that depth quite close to the islands.
I posted an up-to-date navigational chart of the area earlier in this thread. It shows the depths concerned. http://www.ccmb.co.uk/attachment.php...7&d=1548157296