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Depth Affected Underwater

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Depth and Temperature and How They’re Affected Underwater Landon H. Klein Lake Butler Middle School Water Depth Water depth is the distance from the top of the water down. If for example, you are 3 feet down under water, then the depth would be 3 feet. Depth is measured in many things such as feet, meters, kilometers, miles, fathoms, and leagues. The tools that are used to measure are as follows: a depth finder, an echo sounder, a sonic pulse, and radar. Hydrography is the study of measuring and describing the floors of an ocean’s floor. The scientists use hydrography to see what the oceans landing, or floor, looks like. The data gathered from using hydrography is used to update nautical charts, and form hydrographic models. The main way to get data for the science of …show more content…

Multibeam echo sounders do this by sending out sound waves that widen in width as you go down away from the ship. Then, the scientists calculate the amount of times it takes for the sound waves to get back to the sounder. This determines the water’s depth. Multibeam systems (unlike other sonars) use sound wave systems to take the information involving direction from the incoming sound waves, creating lots of information from one single return. This can be used in case there is an oceanic physical structure under ground, and if a boat or submarine is coming. A nautical chart is the most accurate and efficient way of mapping the ocean’s ( or any body of water’s) bed, or floor. You would use nautical charts if you were sailing, fishing, cruising etc. Nautical charts don’t just show depth, they also show high tide, low tide, organizations that deal with marine currents, and when traveling and having port plans. Nautical charts are extended everyday from public and private sources. Nautical charts can be recorded using a multibeam echo sounder. This is the most common way of measuring for a nautical

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