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Using sonar to check on sunken wrecks

APR 06, 2010
Physics Today

Wired UK : This wreck image attached is not computer generated. It’s the sonar image of Russian nuclear submarine B-159 (called K-159 before decommissioning), which has been lying 248 meters down in the Barents Sea , between Norway and Russia, since 2003. The Russian Federation hired Adus , a Scottish company that specializes in high-resolution sonar surveying, to evaluate if it would be possible to recover the wreck.

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