Sentence examples for sonar from inspiring English sources

The storm sewer drains into a lake and rescue crews were using sonar and boats to search.

The ships became two of the most sought-after wrecks in marine history and Canadian divers and archaeologists have spent years seeking them, searches that had to be confined to a few weeks in summer when retreating ice shelves allowed ships to tow sonar through channels around King William Island, where the ships were believed to have sunk.

In 1971, the Bureau deployed sonar transducers, time-lapse cameras and strobe flash lighting in Urquhart Bay (which happens to be the spot in which Google has also filmed) in the hope of photographing the monster underwater for the first time.

He and colleagues were working on a ship towing a sonar radar when they approached an undersea ridge.

When sonar images were compared with Erebus's construction plans, which were provided by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, they showed that the craft was undoubtedly Franklin's flagship.

Sonar scans done at a safe distance of 10 metres create a rough image known as a data-point cloud.

It is not yet clear whether the ship is the Erebus or the Terror.Ryan Harris, the lead underwater archeologist, says sonar images show the deck is relatively intact, suggesting that whatever contents remain should be well preserved.

Metal tested to endurance creaks and groans; a sonar pings just often enough to maximise the tension.

It relies on a combination of two existing oceanographic technologies: robot submarines, known as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and sonar.

The robot would simply be told to maintain a safe working distance and swim back and forth, using its sonar scanners to generate an image of the hull's topography.

Later this year the team will begin detailed geophysical studies of the lake and its surroundings, using sonar.