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| A 3.5 KHz echo-sounder towfish is retrieved at the end of a cruise of the R/V Farnella in 1985. By emitting high frequency sounds into the water and listening to and recording the echoes from the seafloor, the echo-sounder creates depth profiles of the ocean bottom. (Photo Credit: Dann Blackwood, Woods Hole Field Center) |
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-006/htm/sounder.htm
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