Hope vs rope: Can technology save the whales, and Maine s lobster industry, too?
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Hope vs rope: Can technology save the whales, and Maine s lobster industry, too?
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thought, they will come back to the surface. the important thing is to keep the equipment moving and operational. bud, do you think it s going to work, the bluefin will, if there is a plane down there, be able to find it? if it s within the sonar detection range, i m sure it will find it. you think it will. all right, what about this issue of silt? i want to ask you this, but also ask this to david. we ve been hearing what they do know about the surface at this point is incredibly large amount of silt at the bottom that could be enough to cover, say, a plane. no one knows, but it could be. would we be able to see it then? it will be more difficult. when you have a silty bottom, any debris that sinks to the bottom will probably sink into the silt and instead of hitting what we call proud of the bottom so it s more easily detected and imaged with the side scan sonar, it could sink into the silt, no longer be visible and lee a depression or a hole. and then it s more difficult