Healy gets a new MBES

Healy is getting a brand-spanking-new multibeam: an EM122!

Check out Dale Chayes' photo album of the replacement here. The pictures of them cutting into the hull are pretty sweet!

Robot Clam to Detonate Underwater Mines!

I think this is really cool. My master's project involved using multibeam sonar to observe scour and burial of mines on the seafloor. It is a very real danger for ships going into some foreign waters. If this provides a safe means of detonation, then that is awesome!

http://www.livescience.com/technology/091201-robot-clam.html