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Bilge_Rat · 06-26-23, 12:56 PM

on the USN detecting the explosion.

It is not as simple as some people make it out. SOSUS is highly classified, but some stuff is always coming out. I don't think someone actually heard the "implosion" or recorded it. SOSUS has sensors placed in strategic locations around the ocean, they listen to overything, but since the Oceans are very noisy, computers will try to pick up unusual wavelengths that could identify enemy subs.

When USS Thresher went down in 1963, SOSUS sensors picked up the "implosion", but based on what I read, it was more of an unusual blip. Technicians then had to analyse to see what it was and , as I recall, it was only by correlating the time with the Thresher timeline, that they were able to say it was a recording of the implosion.

Obviously things have changed in 60 years, but you probably had the same process where it took some time until they could see that SOSUS had actually recorded the Titan imploding.

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Bilge_Rat Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: standing watch... Posts: 3,856 Downloads: 344 Uploads: 0	on the USN detecting the explosion. It is not as simple as some people make it out. SOSUS is highly classified, but some stuff is always coming out. I don't think someone actually heard the "implosion" or recorded it. SOSUS has sensors placed in strategic locations around the ocean, they listen to overything, but since the Oceans are very noisy, computers will try to pick up unusual wavelengths that could identify enemy subs. When USS Thresher went down in 1963, SOSUS sensors picked up the "implosion", but based on what I read, it was more of an unusual blip. Technicians then had to analyse to see what it was and , as I recall, it was only by correlating the time with the Thresher timeline, that they were able to say it was a recording of the implosion. Obviously things have changed in 60 years, but you probably had the same process where it took some time until they could see that SOSUS had actually recorded the Titan imploding. __________________ Last edited by Bilge_Rat; 06-26-23 at 01:23 PM.