sonar

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The scientists used high resolution sonar to produce a detailed map of the seafloor.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Water temperature layers and changing salinity from melting ice interfere with sonar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

This included mapping the seabed with sonar arrays and dredging up sediment samples, said the authority.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

Gene Zilinskas, a retired sonar engineer, is 85 and his wife Dagmar, a former art teacher, is 93.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

If he’d been thinking straight, he would’ve switched the ship’s detection system from radar to sonar as soon as they left Charleston Harbor.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan