sonar
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So the department brought in a search company with the latest sonar technology as well as divers - and they found Schepers and her car at the bottom of the river in March 2025.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
Coast Guard and other partners, conducted a grid search for the vessel, which is believed to be about 120 feet deep in a rocky seabed, using boat-mounted sonar platforms and other tools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The monitoring devices which were believed to have been dropped by the Bear-F plane float on the water and use sonar to detect submarines and other vessels.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
Using Mr. Althaus’s research as a guide, the team’s scientists found the plane’s debris field after 11 days searching about 10 square miles of the bay’s seafloor with scanning sonars and underwater robots.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2018
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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Earth Science - Middle School
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