SOSUS history began in 1949 when the US Navy approached the Committee for Undersea Warfare, an academic advisory group formed in 1946 under the National Academy of …

Just over 66 years ago, one of the Navy’s most secretive communities began. Its members went by the code word SOSUS, which means “Sound Surveillance System.” A new front line in the …

A map published in Scientific American in February 1981 also showed SOSUS shore facilities in the Tsushima Straits and the Okinawa area.8 The existence of old cables at Horonai Point in …

The SOSUS system was very successful in detecting and tracking the noisy diesel and then nuclear Soviet submarines of the Cold War. The sailors operating the early SOSUS arrays …

This map shows the location of the submarine cable off the central California coast that is being used for the Sound in the Sea Project. This cable stretches from Pillar Point Air Force Station …

Two projects were initiated to use the U.S. Navy’s networks of bottom-mounted hydrophones, referred to as the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), one in the Atlantic (Nishimura and …

SOSUS, an acronym for Sound Surveillance System, is a chain of underwater listening posts located around the world in places such as the Atlantic Ocean near Greenland, Iceland and …

The SOund SUrveillance System or SOSUS consists of bottom mounted hydrophone arrays connected by undersea communication cables to facilities on shore.

A map published in Scientific American in February 1981 also showed SOSUS shore facilities in the Tsushima Straits and the Okinawa area.8 The existence of old cables at Horonai Point in …

Figure 3 shows the approximate locations of some SOSUS stations; some are part of the IMS and some are connected to NOAA via a Navy processing station at Whidbey Island, Washington. …