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>"Shot heard around the world" makes sense.
>#2301: "STAY TUNED…" Like pitch of a tuned fork.
Yes it does and your take on STAY TUNED resonates ;)
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Thanks navyfag. Strange as that scene with Jonesey telling the story about hearing the classical music in the sonar headphones came into my mind last night. Hivemind at work again.
>https://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_25/sosus.htm
Fascinating article. Must read imo for anyone into this story.
>deep sound channel is found at the depth where the sound velocity is a minimum
>sound channel axis is normally found at a depth of several thousands of feet, depending on thermal conditions, and because of the unusually warm waters of the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea, it lies more deeply in the Atlantic than in the Pacific.
Mayotte lies on the edge of the Mozambique Channel which has an avg. depth of 10,801 ft or ~1,800 fathoms, within the sound channel on the SOSUS page (attached). So it appears that SOSUS is doable from that location.
>SOFAR – for Sound Fixing and Ranging. In the SOFAR concept, downed pilots would drop small explosive charges to the depth of the deep sound channel, where their sound output could be expected to travel for thousands of miles to deep, bottom-mounted hydrophones and triangulated to locate the survivors.
>formed the scientific basis for SOSUS and made possible long-range undersea surveillance surprisingly early in the post-war era
SO FAR, your instincts seem to be correct, but also using Occam's Razor, why would the depth charge have to be dropped from space? Why not a ship or from the island itself? Using the SOSUS tech as a framework, what type of charge would be required to set off such a WAVE if even small expolosives that a pilot could drop could travel 1000's of miles?
Does it need to be so large? And does it even need to be explosive?
Really interesting insights & questions this article raises. Thanks again.