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hydrophone

Underwater microphone and ancillary equipment capable of picking up waterborne sounds. It was originally developed to detect enemy submarines but is now also used, for example, for listening to the sounds made by whales.


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A sixth category, hydrophones, where the vibrator is water based is presently under consideration.
This notorious Faeroes-Iceland line with its underwater hydrophones of the SOSUS American stationary antisubmarine system and mobile NATO antisubmarine warfare (ASW) forces is well known to our submariners and has always been a real headache.
]Studies of sound condition in the reconstructed middle ear with a hydrophone.
 
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