Active sonar is used by military vessels during exercises and ... In his 2005 report to the General Assembly, the UN Secretary General listed anthropogenic underwater noise as one of five “current ...

The underwater world is becoming increasingly ... oil and gas exploration and even wind farms all contribute to the noise.

Sonar technology emits sound vibrations into the water ... This method is useful for mapping the ocean floor and detecting underwater vessels, such as submarines. The sounds emitted by tactical ...

Build a depth finder directly into his surf board! At the heart of the “surfsonar” is the Ping Sonar Echosounder, a sonar transducer designed for AUV’s and ROV’s. [foobarbecue] embedded ...

In 1987, an expedition called Operation Deep Scan used a flotilla of 20 sonar-equipped boats to sweep the loch with a curtain of sound; the operation yielded three underwater targets that could ...

Sound is omnipresent in our society. Often it is a nuisance and by-product of human activities, but it is also used as a tool to further our vision, for instance underwater. The acoustics and sonar ...

The European Union is to give €6.3m ($6.5m) to a pan-European project investigating how underwater noise radiating from ships ...

Sonar technology is being used for the first time in Scotland to detect the underwater entrances of beaver burrows. Beavers' homes can often create problems for landowners when the tunnels cause ...

Australian navy divers have suffered minor injuries from a sonar pulse by a Chinese navy vessel. Here’s what that means and how underwater sound can hurt divers. Many are asking whether Prime ...

Naval sonar systems work like acoustic floodlights, sending sound waves through ocean waters for tens or ... two dead beaked whales were found stranded in the Gulf of California following underwater ...