The “sonic cannons,” also called “seismic airguns,” are towed behind ships and shoot sound waves 100 times louder than a jet engine. The pulses of sound reverberate beneath the sea floor and bounce back to the surface, where computers translate the measurements into high-resolution 3-D images. The boats chug along, blasting sound waves, for weeks or months at a time.
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