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Aren’t there maps?
by gnarlysasquatch 5y ago
Aren’t there maps?
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- pugworthy 5y agoOnly where you go and record data to create said maps. Sonar systems have not mapped the entire sea floor, and as others have pointed out, sonar is the main effective way to create such a map.
- alfalfasprout 5y agoand running sonar in enemy waters is not exactly a good idea :)
- pugworthy 5y agoTrue, though they are very important for continued and safe commerce in said waters. If you have any kind of ship-based commerce passing through waters, you want good charted data, and you want that data made public for the safety of ships coming and going. It's worth pointing out that regular, non-military ships do run into uncharted seamounts too. A good example is the discovery of the Muirfield Seamount, which happened when a ship in what charts said was water over 5000 meters deep ran into it. The top was only 16-18 meters below the surface. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirfield_Seamount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirfield_Seamount
- brokenmachine 5y agoWell, now the map of that area has one mountain on it.
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- QuarterReptile 5y agoCharts. Yes, and arguably that's part of the problem. If everything is just 'charted', you lose sensitivity to the things that are old or low resolution because it's all on the same chart.