This image is from a Humminbird Side Imaging SONAR and was featured in a story that appears at: http://newsok.com/sonar-discovers-stolen-suv-in-lake/article/3352976
Dive Rescue International is offering the Humminbird 1197C SI Combo SAR and the 997C SI Combo SAR units to public safety teams and more information can be found at:
http://www.diverescueintl.com/pdfs/997c%20SAR%20FactSheet.pdf
http://www.diverescueintl.com/pdfs/1197c SAR FactSheet.pdf
I pass this information along because these Humminbird Combo SAR SONAR units cost less than $3,000 and can greatly improve a team's ability to locate objects while preventing potential risk to the divers. While these units don't do all that a "real" side scan SONAR system does, they offer a tremendous "bang for the buck" and cost less than 10% of the more robust systems.
Sonar discovers stolen SUV in Edmond lake
Theft happened 10 years ago
BY DIANA BALDWIN
Published: March 14, 2009
EDMOND New sonar equipment helped Edmond Police Department's dive team find a car this week that was stolen 10 years ago and embedded in the bottom of Arcadia Lake.
A search of the license tag showed an insurance company paid a claim on the vehicle in July 1999, but police are still trying to determine from where the vehicle was stolen.
Police officials purchased the side-scan sonar equipment about three weeks ago. The equipment mounts on a patrol boat and helps locate objects underwater, particularly drowning victims, said Rockie Yardley, the police departments technical investigator.
The equipment, which cost $2,100, was used in locating the Titanic, Yardley said.
"Not bad to have it such a short time and already solve a 10-year-old crime, he said. "It will make our job a lot easier and quicker when we are looking for something in the water.
The Honda Passport was in 13-foot deep water where the temperature was about 45 degrees.
"The car was full of mud all the way up to the center console, Yardley said.
Both airbags were missing from the vehicle. Yardley said sometimes people steal vehicles just to get the airbags, which cost about $2,000 each.