sonar
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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
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
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
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
Her words seemed to come from everywhere, rippling through the water like dolphin sonar.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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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
It would dive to just a few hundred feet above the sea floor and then spend 24 hours pinging with different sonars back and forth across about 10 square nautical miles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2019
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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