Sean had remained standing. "Just calm down, everyone. Think about it. You can Google your house and get a satellite picture of your street. There's enough hardware circling the earth to fill three junk yards. By now they've noticed we're not in communication and some geek is repositioning satellites to spot us. With the transponder down they'll be working twice as fast."
No, they didn't need a mass panic. What they needed was logical thinking. Sean noticed Shepherd was scribbling notes, but he had a mini-recorder out as well.
Sean moved away from Molly as people continued to voice their fears. He found someone with an officer's uniform and fished out his badge. "When this little question and answer bit is done with, I'd like to talk to the Captain about the idea of someone MAKING people disappear." If there was some sort of spree killer on board, they had to find him fast. Searching the ship as hard as they had, there was slim to no chance of finding the missing alive. If someone killed them, the ocean would do the clean up for them.