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Sonar is your only way to look at the bottom, but you don't want to put out more sound than you have to, you'd have to do that about every 20 seconds or so. – Thomas Shugart	Found on CNN 2 years ago
One of the huge challenges we have is quite simply physics, unlike mapping the Earth's surface where we can use a camera [ or ] satellites, at sea, light does not penetrate through the water column. So we're pretty much limited to using sonar systems. – Jamie McMichael-Phillips	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The latest version of the Mk 48 ADCAP (advanced capability) is the mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System. The Mk 48 ADCAP mod 7 CBASS torpedo is the result of a Joint Development Program with the Royal Australian Navy and achieved initial operational capability in 2006. – William Couch	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It’s a recovery operation at this point, we pulled the divers about 9:30, 10:00 o’clock, went into recovery mode at that time and put the boats in the water with sonar and that gives us the best possibility of making a find. – Skokie Fire Chief Jim Walters	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The preservation of this vessel is astounding, you can see that in the sonar image. – Billy Ray Morris	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The target identified by Orion (side-scan radar) is consistent with a 790-foot cargo ship, which from sonar images appears to be in an upright position and in one piece. – The NTSB	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We get sonar contacts with things that are far bigger than any fish that should live in this body of water, we only get one or two decent sightings a year. – Steve Feltham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We’ll use a camera-equipped underwater Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) to investigate a sonar anomaly at a depth of 600 feet that could be the fuselage of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra. – Ric Gillespie	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The sonar images showed the damage the Navy had initially documented is still very much there, the flight deck has been distorted. Some of the areas of the flight deck have started to collapse and there are holes in the deck. – James Delgado	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Loch Ness is not as big as the Himalayas, it is a finite body of water. It has been extensively scanned by sonar. It's been observed for decades. There's just really no possibility that there's a plesiosaur in Loch Ness, or even anything of comparable size. – Daniel Loxton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
At the end of WWII we did not have an undersea advantage. The Germans had developed submarines with snorkels and the US was searching for how they would deal with them. The new subs could avoid radar detection and were quiet when using their batteries. Then, nuclear submarines came along. Passive sonar worked really well against them because they make noise continuously. Passive sonar works well against nuclear submarines and is less effective against diesels. – Bryan Clark	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Sonar is your only way to look at the bottom, but you don't want to put out more sound than you have to, you'd have to do that about every 20 seconds or so.

– Thomas Shugart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the huge challenges we have is quite simply physics, unlike mapping the Earth's surface where we can use a camera [ or ] satellites, at sea, light does not penetrate through the water column. So we're pretty much limited to using sonar systems.

– Jamie McMichael-Phillips

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The latest version of the Mk 48 ADCAP (advanced capability) is the mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System. The Mk 48 ADCAP mod 7 CBASS torpedo is the result of a Joint Development Program with the Royal Australian Navy and achieved initial operational capability in 2006.

– William Couch

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It’s a recovery operation at this point, we pulled the divers about 9:30, 10:00 o’clock, went into recovery mode at that time and put the boats in the water with sonar and that gives us the best possibility of making a find.

– Skokie Fire Chief Jim Walters

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The preservation of this vessel is astounding, you can see that in the sonar image.

– Billy Ray Morris

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The target identified by Orion (side-scan radar) is consistent with a 790-foot cargo ship, which from sonar images appears to be in an upright position and in one piece.

– The NTSB

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We get sonar contacts with things that are far bigger than any fish that should live in this body of water, we only get one or two decent sightings a year.

– Steve Feltham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We’ll use a camera-equipped underwater Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) to investigate a sonar anomaly at a depth of 600 feet that could be the fuselage of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra.

– Ric Gillespie

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The sonar images showed the damage the Navy had initially documented is still very much there, the flight deck has been distorted. Some of the areas of the flight deck have started to collapse and there are holes in the deck.

– James Delgado

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Loch Ness is not as big as the Himalayas, it is a finite body of water. It has been extensively scanned by sonar. It's been observed for decades. There's just really no possibility that there's a plesiosaur in Loch Ness, or even anything of comparable size.

– Daniel Loxton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

At the end of WWII we did not have an undersea advantage. The Germans had developed submarines with snorkels and the US was searching for how they would deal with them. The new subs could avoid radar detection and were quiet when using their batteries. Then, nuclear submarines came along. Passive sonar worked really well against them because they make noise continuously. Passive sonar works well against nuclear submarines and is less effective against diesels.

– Bryan Clark

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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