sonar
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The San Francisco Police Department’s Marine Unit found the submerged wreckage using boat-mounted sonar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
He trades the plush G-funk popular in L.A. for a style more common in New York—all hard surfaces and rigid drums, with a barely-there melody that pings like sonar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
With the help of a magnetometer and side-scan sonar, the crew identified a large metal object about four miles off the coast of Sullivan’s Island, located in Charleston Harbor.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
“You use sonars to verify ranges and they might have been testing the sonar or working out the echo strength of the sonar,” the source told The Times.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
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
Tom filtered out the difference in the two sounds with the correlation calculator unit of one of his quality analyzer sonars.
From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey
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Earth Science - Middle School
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