echo sounder
noun
: an instrument for determining the depth of a body of water or of an object below the surface by sound waves
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The 1200 also had dimmable interior lights and even lights under the hull, along with an echo sounder for reading depths.
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Chloe Braithwaite, Robb Report, 2 May 2024
Much like sonar scientists of the 1940s, Lauren Cook became interested in the mesopelagic through an echo sounder.
—WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
Then the vessel’s echo sounder, a system that maps out the seafloor using sound waves, detected an underwater volcano measuring about 1.2 cubic miles, Live Science reports.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
Using echo sounder data, the vehicles created high resolution images of the seafloor.
—Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 8 June 2020
Vescovo would have to buy a multibeam echo sounder, an advanced sonar mapping system, to determine precise depths and dive locations.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
Using an echo sounder to guide its way through the depths, Boaty went down around 13,123 feet (4,000 meters) on this particular mission.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2019
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Chloe Braithwaite, Robb Report, 2 May 2024
Much like sonar scientists of the 1940s, Lauren Cook became interested in the mesopelagic through an echo sounder.
—WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
Then the vessel’s echo sounder, a system that maps out the seafloor using sound waves, detected an underwater volcano measuring about 1.2 cubic miles, Live Science reports.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
Using echo sounder data, the vehicles created high resolution images of the seafloor.
—Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 8 June 2020
Vescovo would have to buy a multibeam echo sounder, an advanced sonar mapping system, to determine precise depths and dive locations.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
Using an echo sounder to guide its way through the depths, Boaty went down around 13,123 feet (4,000 meters) on this particular mission.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2019
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