sonar

Learning forward-facing sonar became essential, says Drew Cook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

To track this daily movement, UBC researchers Drs. Philip Matthews and Evan McKenzie placed a sonar system on the lake floor.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

Last month, explorers discovered the ruins of the Douglas DC-4 aircraft using an autonomous sonar drone that detected the aircraft's fuselage and tail.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The San Francisco Police Department has been using boat-mounted sonar to search for the vessel since Tuesday and located its remains Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

From 1963 to 1966, significant improvements on this early system were made by scientist Martin Klein, generally considered to be the “father” of commercial side-scan sonar.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Mayer and other scientists argued that emerging technologies, especially multibeam sonars that produce detailed 3D images, offered an unprecedented opportunity to document little known sea floors off the U.S.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024

Using a variety of sonars and two remotely operated vehicles — Deep Discoverer and Serios — researchers aboard the ship are mapping and collecting samples from areas along the Aleutian Trench and Gulf of Alaska.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

National Marine Fisheries Service that concluded the Navy had "killed at least six whales in an accident involving common ship-based sonars."

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023

He has shown that, similarly, hawkmoths use their genitalia to produce ultrasound that jams the sonars of predating bats.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

Because of their sonar-blinding systems, Tom realized there was a chance of the ships losing contact with one another—especially if their analyzer sonars developed trouble.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey