CNN State of the Union With Candy Crowley March 23, 2014 16:20:00
By a long cable in the case of 4,000 meters depth, you would have a cable 10,000 meters long towed from a ship between 190 feet and 250 feet. and weather-wise, i've seen those devices deep-towed sonars recovered in 30-foot wave, 30-foot seas. >> and obviously the ships can handle that as well. so the waves are not -- for these big ships that would be towing the underwater device, the weather's not a particularly threatening thing. >> you might have to pick your course to go in a certain direction because some courts might be untenable. and you have to be able to maintain your course at a slow ...
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