GeoAcoustics DeepTow 2000 Detects Crashed Aircraft10/07/2008 |
| Incostas has detected an aircraft that crashed in the Carribean Sea on 4th January 2008 with the help of their GeoAcoustics Deep Tow. The aircraft, carrying 14 people on route between Caracas, Venezuela and the Los Roques islands, was 24 miles south of its destination at the time of the crash. |
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Due to the versatility of the side scan sonar it was possible to cover large areas of seabed using the low frequency (~100kHz) sweep whilst more detailed observations could be undertaken with the high frequency (~400kHz) setting after targets had been identified.
During the course of the survey two significant targets were discovered and one of them merited further investigation as it conformed to the shape and size of the missing aircraft.
Caption: Deep Tow 2000 Vehicle on board the search vessel 
Source: Incostas Website: http://www.incostas.com Supplier: GeoAcoustics Ltd More news from this supplier: GeoAcoustics Digital Side Scan Sonar Data Collection for Shallow Survey 2012 Opened Geoswath Plus Compact GeoSwath Plus Trials on Remus 100 AUV Challenges of Mapping Small Hydroelectric Dams South Australian Port Development GeoSwath User Seminar in Qingdao GeoSwath Sonars Operational at Rijkswaterstaat Peter Hogarth New President of GeoAcoustics GeoAcoustics now a Kongsberg Company Walney Offshore Windfarm Project Chooses Holmatro JSDE/ION JNC 2011 Call For Papers Ocean Explorer H2000 ROV Ocean Signal Strenghtens Sales And Marketing CEEDUCERS for Indonesia Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation Singapore Integrated Navigation Systems for Superyachts Real-time High-resolution Underwater 3D Images NOAA Commissions Research Ship Bell M. Shimada UDT Asia Postponed 
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