CBS 58 spoke with Professor Harvey Bootsma to learn more insight about the challenges faced by rescue and recovery teams.
“Sound travels more than four times faster in water than it does in air and sound is not attenuated or absorbed in water as it is in air,” Bootsma told CBS 58. “Sound travels very well. At the same time other frequencies like microwave frequencies or radio wave frequencies that are used by radios or GPS, they don’t travel very well in the water.”
