![]() ![]() The expedition team ran two independently self-controlled robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles along the ocean bottom day and night. 'With the sonar map, it's like suddenly the entire room lit up and you can go from room to room with a magnifying glass and document it.' Parks Stephenson, a Titanic historian, highlighted how the sonar helped the team. This allows them to 'see' the debris of the Titanic through the murky depths of the North Atlantic. The team would have emitted sound pulses, listened for echoes and then converted these echoes into digital images. Sonar uses sound to detect objects which are under the surface of water. The extraordinary new map revealing the Titanic disaster debris field was created by using sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots.
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