side-scan sonar
noun
: a sonar that scans the ocean floor to the side of a ship's track and is used especially for mapping the ocean bottom
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In 2022 and 2023, the team began using side-scan sonar to study the seafloor.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
The Port Police deployed a vessel equipped with side-scan sonar for further underwater searching.
—Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
Maritime historians with the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association used historical records and a homemade side-scan sonar device to find the lost ship earlier this year, according to an announcement this week.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
As of Tuesday evening, crews had so far been able to find three passenger vehicles, a cement truck and a fifth vehicle submerged in the river using infrared and side-scan sonar technology, according the city’s fire chief, James Wallace.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
The Port Police deployed a vessel equipped with side-scan sonar for further underwater searching.
—Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
Maritime historians with the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association used historical records and a homemade side-scan sonar device to find the lost ship earlier this year, according to an announcement this week.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
As of Tuesday evening, crews had so far been able to find three passenger vehicles, a cement truck and a fifth vehicle submerged in the river using infrared and side-scan sonar technology, according the city’s fire chief, James Wallace.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
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