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When Puma nears the ship, the ship?s transponders can no longer pick it up well, leaving the AUV team unable to locate it precisely. WHOI scientists Susan Humphris and Tim Shank and helicopter pilots Sven Stenvall and Geir Akse were dispatched with a receiver that could hear a sound beacon on Puma?a device normally used to locate people trapped under avalanches. Stenvall flew the helicopter around the boat with the receiver dangling by a cable just above the ice, listening for telltale signals from Puma, somewhere nearby and under the ice. Then Shank spotted Puma?s blinking strobe light and a bit of its yellow ?skin? in a tiny gap between ice floes, hugging Oden?s hull on the portside bow.
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Posted: April 16, 2008
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