sonar
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Research ships map the ocean floor and measure water currents using sonar equipment, including systems that can image the sub-seafloor landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Using sonar surveys, historical satellite imagery and five years of monitoring data, the study tracked recovery across 39 damaged areas of seabed.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Guided by the decades-old survey records, the researchers scanned 11.5 kilometers of seafloor using sonar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Carbondale, Ill., wonder, who grew up fishing a pond in his backyard, rocketed up the sport with his wizardry for forward-facing sonar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The steady ping of the enemy’s sonar waves bouncing off the boat’s metal hull made it all too obvious.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
Could searchers’ sonars have already missed wreckage of Flight 370 in remote Indian Ocean?
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2015
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
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