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Title: $62 SanDisk Memory Card Found Intact At Titan Wreck Site
Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/20/...
Investigators recovered the OceanGate Titan sub's underwater camera nearly
intact, discovering a SanDisk SD card that survived the 2023 implosion and
still contained 12 images and 9 videos. TechSpot reports: Scott Manley, the
science communication YouTuber, gamer, astrophysicist, and programmer, posted
about the latest find: a hardened SubC-branded Rayfin Mk2 Benthic Camera
containing the undamaged SD card. The titanium and synthetic sapphire crystal
camera is rated to withstand depths of up to 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) --
the Titan imploded at around 3,300 meters (10,827 feet). The casing is
intact, though the lens is shattered and the PCBs are slightly damaged.
Incredibly the SD card inside the camera was undamaged. Tom's Hardware
reports that it's almost certainly a SanDisk Extreme Pro 512GB, which costs
around $62 on Amazon. The camera's SD card was found to be fully encrypted,
divided into a small partition for operating system updates and a larger one
for user data. Due to impact damage from the accident, several components of
the system-on-module (SOM) board -- including connectors and the
microcontroller -- were broken, complicating the data extraction process.
[...] After determining the data wasn't encrypted beyond the file system
level, they successfully accessed the SD card contents using the
manufacturer's proprietary equipment and procedures.
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