Cerberus (sonar)
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U.S. Navy sailors guiding a Cerberus Swimmer Detection System into the water at Naval Station Pascagoula.
Cerberus is a blue egg-shaped ultrasound device to detect submerged divers. It is made by Qinetiq. It can distinguish a diver from a seal or dolphin or porpoise. Its range is about 700 metres = 0.435 miles. It was unveiled at UDT2003. It is semi-intelligent and reportedly can detect an air-filled chest cavity underwater and let its operator tell whether the echo is from a man or something irrelevant such as a seal or dolphin, and to distinguish between: a shoal of fish; a ship's wake; a diver with an open-circuit scuba set; a stealth diver with a rebreather; flotsam and jetsam.
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QinetiQ pages
- About Cerberus, protecting oil rigs
- Swimmer Detection System (SDS) Cerberus 360
- Cerberus provides diver detection includes image
- Cerberus - Protecting ships and naval assets from attack
- Cerberus protects against attack on oil industry infrastructure
- QinetiQ displays innovative solutions at maritime exhibition
- QinetiQ’s Cerberus protects America’s Cup
- Big image of a Cerberus unit
- A Cerberus unit in a private yacht
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