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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
Through triangulation of various sensors, Sosus is more accurate than than what may be believed. Also, with more sophisticated and powerful computers that are programed to detect anomalies, it's a lot easier to differentiate and filter events like an implosion from background noises like marine life that are Indigenous to the oceans as opposed to ships and the like.
Sosus also recorded the loss of the Scorpion (SSN-589 ) Navy Scientist John P. Craven confirmed that many times in interviews.
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Triangulation tells you WHERE something has happened, but not WHAT has happened. Finding out what has happened just by its sounds is difficult enough at the surface and in the air, but a real challenge underwater. Of course the location could have given clues and they could have (and likely will have) made a presumption, but it takes time to confirm it.