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What is a sonar?

What is a sonar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) echolocation
  2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.
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Like bats, dolphins use echolocation, an internal sonar system, to help them navigate, avoid predators and find food.
With radar, sonar, fish-finders and echograms she could pinpoint and capture whole schools of fish with chilling effectiveness.
The system also has three flank arrays on both the port and starboard sides and an intercept sonar.
Whilst sound carries better in water than in air, that hasn't stopped mammals from using sonar in the air too.
Lidar is a remote sensing technique that uses laser light in much the same way that sonar uses sound or radar uses radio waves.
But Balcomb said he is fighting, nonetheless, to prove that sonar is dangerous to orcas too.

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