NYPD Divers using Sonar with LCD screens in mask

[mike_s]

This is interesting. Thought I'd share it in the PSD forum.

Might be something your team might like. But at $50k per unit, good luck getting it funded.


from NEW TOOLS FOR N.Y. ROBOCOP

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The NYPD's Scuba Team is evaluating devices that allow divers to see underwater sonar images on LCD screens attached to their masks instead of blindly searching murky rivers.

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Scuba Unit

Sonar

Police divers are testing a new and improved $50,000 sonar device that will not only allow underwater searchers to transmit images back to a boat, but let the diver actually see the sonar picture on two LCD screens fitted on his or her mask. "A lot of times, visibility isn't good in the water here in New York, so divers can't see two feet in front of them," said Lt. John Harkins, commander of the NYPD Scuba Team.
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[Txfirefighter4305]

WOW...


Nuff said.

 

[keruxts]

"A lot of times, visibility isn't good in the water here in New York, so divers can't see two feet in front of them," said Lt. John Harkins, commander of the NYPD Scuba Team.
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Geez....I'd love to have two feet viz on any of our dives.

 

[Txfirefighter4305]

Yeah. I am not gonna say anything about the five or six foot around here... =)

 

[mike_s]

You thought the Oceanic Datamask was expensive at $1500. $50,000 for a scuba mask? wow.

 

[vladimir]

No wonder my taxes are in the stratosphere!

 

[mike_s]

No wonder my taxes are in the stratosphere!

you should see the $9 million dollar helicopter they just bought, not to include the flight simulator they bought for it.

 

[psdiverdave]

ummmmmm.... WOW!!! I'm thinkin NOT in our budget.... we fight bad vis (0-3 ft) and rippin currents here on the Oregon Coast all the time... but I don't think that our Cheif will spring for that..... looks like it's the line search for us.