Sonar sent sound waves to the ocean floor and measured how long it took for the waves to bounce back, giving scientists their ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally ...

Earlier this year, a former US Air Force pilot and intelligence officer raised hopes that Amelia Earhart's plane may have been discovered after scanning the Pacific Ocean floor using sonar.

Now, having served 10 years in prison, a judge has ended the civil charge. However, that doesn't mean that Thompson is going ...

Sonar technology emits sound vibrations into the water, then records the echoes of that sound off various distant objects. This method is useful for mapping the ocean floor and detecting ...

Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, released a sonar image and said it was ... of the Pacific Ocean floor, “more than all previous searches combined”. DSV said it is keeping ...

A World War Two ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast of Rio De Janeiro using sonar imaging.

The seamount rises 3,109 meters from the ocean floor, nearly four times the height ... aboard the research vessel R/V Falkor (too). Using sonar technology, scientists mapped the underwater ...