Robert Kessaram.
Bob Kessaram reports that he worked at SOFAR during his summer vacations from 1960 to 1965 as a recording room
technician, playing back all those big reel tapes and recording the sound signatures of various bombs dropped overboard.
Upon reflection, it was interesting stuff. He suggests that if there was a hydrophone array in the Indian Ocean today, they might
have been able to find the Malaysia Airlines plane more easily.
BH Comments:-
(Maurice Ewing must be turning in his grave.
It was his idea to use small ‘sofar bombs’ that could be automatically released from downed aircraft to locate the aircraft’s
position in the ocean. The system was implemented on military aircraft and tested in the Pacific Ocean near the end of World
War II, but an occasion never arose for its use in practice.
The commercial airline industry balked at the idea of explosives stored in the tail of a plane, and the idea was abandoned.)
Posted Apr. 2014
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technician, playing back all those big reel tapes and recording the sound signatures of various bombs dropped overboard.
Upon reflection, it was interesting stuff. He suggests that if there was a hydrophone array in the Indian Ocean today, they might
have been able to find the Malaysia Airlines plane more easily.
BH Comments:-
(Maurice Ewing must be turning in his grave.
It was his idea to use small ‘sofar bombs’ that could be automatically released from downed aircraft to locate the aircraft’s
position in the ocean. The system was implemented on military aircraft and tested in the Pacific Ocean near the end of World
War II, but an occasion never arose for its use in practice.
The commercial airline industry balked at the idea of explosives stored in the tail of a plane, and the idea was abandoned.)
Posted Apr. 2014
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