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Old 2nd May 2010 | 14:15
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Low Flier
 
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From: Forest of Caledon
Low Flier, what makes you think they are looking for the box?
About 30 years experience of seabed search and recovery work looking for such wreckage while working as a civilian contractor for organisations such as USN SupSalv and as a client representative on similar jobs outside the military sphere. It is the two data recorders which will provide the most important evidence for the investigators.


120kHz gives a resolution of about 1500/120000/2 (half wavelength) or about 6 millimeters.
In your dreams, JD! I promise you that you will never ever find or resolve a centimetric sized object with a 120kHz sidescan sonar. I've never knowingly looked at a CVR-sized box with such a low frequency sonar, but I suspect that it'd be quite difficult, and more probably impossible, to find at such a low frequency.
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