How to Use hydrophone in a Sentence
hydrophone
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Meanwhile, the hydrophone array, attached to the rusty train wheels, had dropped to the bottom of the sea.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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During the summer, the songs picked up by the hydrophone took place mostly at night.
—Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
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About a mile off Cape Henlopen, Fox brought the boat to an idle and tossed a hydrophone, wired to a receiver, overboard.
—Andrew S. Lewis, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
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The last step is the acoustic tag that allows researchers to listen via hydrophones within the harbor and around the state.
—David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2019
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Cameras mounted on the hydrophone captured pictures of the rare whales.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2019
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Knapp cut the engine, plugged a hydrophone into a pair of boat speakers, and dropped the device into the water.
—Dyllan Furness, Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2020
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After the earthquake, the team used directional hydrophones to tune into the cetaceans' sounds, and then traveled to the source in their boat.
—National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2020
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The hydrophone used on the Carson covers an area roughly 25 meters wide.
—Nicholas Turner, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2022
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Dropping a hydrophone in the water is a passive approach.
—Rebecca Asoulin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2019
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The hydrophones used in the dolphin study also allowed the team to track how the dolphins are distributed along the mosaic of the floodplains.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
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Bouncing back to the surface, the sound waves are detected by hydrophones hung from a series of cables being towed by the ship.
—Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
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The team recorded the sounds made by Killer and Pilot whales using instruments known as D-Tags and hydrophone arrays.
—Arvind Suresh (editor), Discover Magazine, 14 July 2014
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And early in the cruise, fishing gear got tangled in the 15-kilometer-long hydrophone cable.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 30 June 2021
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Next up, the duo wants to perform a live duet with a whale by capturing the creature’s underwater sounds with a hydrophone.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
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Maritime search experts say acoustic hydrophones must be towed in the water at depths of up to 2,000 meters in order to have the best chance of picking up the signals.
—Reuters, New York Times, 25 May 2016
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Acoustic Monitoring The team used five hydrophones to listen in on the dolphins.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
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The hydrophone aboard the bright yellow and blue buoy, with brethren up and down the East Coast, hasn’t tracked a whale since it was plopped in the water in late May, though some are expected as the fall draws closer, Fandel said.
—Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
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Amidst a group of 30 or so whales, vocalization expert Rebecca Wellard towed a hydrophone behind the boat to record Type D calls.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2019
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Megan Winton, a scientist with the conservancy, submerged a hydrophone to check whether the shark bore a pinging tag.
—New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
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Winderen is part of a long lineage of scientists, artists, composers, and musicians who have used hydrophone recordings for decades to surface rarely heard sounds of the sea.
—Hazlitt, 23 Nov. 2022
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For example, a single hydrophone mounted on a pipe near the center of MAS pokes out from the bottom of the ship to listen for songs of marine mammals like whales and dolphins.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
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Dangling from each buoy on a 100-meter line was a hydrophone to detect underwater sound.
—Claudia Geib, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
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Then the researchers come back and beam a particular sound into the water that, when picked up by the pop-up’s hydrophone, causes the device to detach from its anchor and float to the surface.
—Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 9 May 2008
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At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, researchers set up their hydrophone as far away from any disturbances as possible.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2016
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Hunters will also use a hydrophone that can pick up acoustic signals 60-feet below the surface of the loch -- although nobody is quite sure what an age-old water beast sounds like.
—Jennifer Hassanand Adela Suliman The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
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Three miles off the coast of Dominica, on a flat blue Caribbean sea, Pernell Francis lowers a hydrophone into the water and slides a pair of headphones over his ears.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Outside Online, 24 June 2020
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Newport Coastal Adventure has been tracking the whales using a hydrophone, Trowbridge said.
—Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
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Guests can spot whales, otters, bears, sea lions, deer, and eagles regularly, while the sounds from the fathoms below burble to the surface thanks to a shipboard hydrophone.
—Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
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As sensors have gotten cheaper and technologies such as hydrophones, biologgers and drones have improved, the amount of animal data has exploded.
—Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
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The best hope for disrupting Chinese hydrophone surveillance would be to attack the vulnerable processing stations where the data comes ashore via fiber-optic cables.
—Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2022
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