The device, tethered to the ship by 20,000 feet of cable, remains about 1,000 feet above the sea floor, listening for the telltale ping of the underwater locator beacon installed on black boxes ...

There have been discussions about requiring boxes be made so that they float, and of attaching underwater locator devices to the plane's structure to help find both the wreckage and the boxes ...

Malaysia Airlines did not respond to a question from CNN about the devices. But the airline said in an e-mail last week, “We are unaware of any issue with the ULB (underwater locator beacon ...

David Mark from Pixabay Unlike GPS systems that rely on satellites to locate devices, underwater signals quickly dissipate due to water's properties. Nevertheless, sound travels efficiently in ...

A team at the University of Washington has developed the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smart devices. “Mobile devices today can work nearly anywhere on Earth. You can be in a forest or ...

Many people have already lost their lives to these underwater booby traps ... were killed from these deadly devices, RCUD acquired a Fisher side scan to help locate the mines.

The family of a man whose body was found underwater with a sonar search device have called for the tech to be rolled out by Police Scotland. Volunteers took two just days to locate fisherman Greig ...

the department was able to purchase an underwater sonar search device. The handheld device is called AquaEye, and helps first responders locate submerged victims. An AquaEye unit was demonstrated ...

Malaysia Airlines did not respond to a question from CNN about the devices. But the airline said in an e-mail last week, “We are unaware of any issue with the ULB (underwater locator beacon ...