What is "sonarmen"

Usage examples of "sonarmen".

The sonarmen played acquisition-and-tracking games against audiotapes, and the rest of those aboard operated every shipboard system, down to tinkering with the single Mark 48 torpedo aboard.

Ben Steel was sonar officer, and one of his sonarmen had detected a strange sound when they were south of Greenland.

He had a hand extended so that one of the sonarmen would hand him a set of headphones.

Delaney turned away and placed the headphones over his ears as one of the sonarmen waved a hand at him.

But now there were signs that he was anxious, an omnipresent figure lurking behind the sonarmen on watch, asking them questions every few mm utes, borrowing headphones to make sure they were functioning properly.

The sonar officer was leaning over the shoulder of one of his sonarmen staring at the visual display when they entered.

The bluish glow revealed Chief Moroney and his duty sonarmen concentrating quietly on their equipment.

Skilled sonarmen with unique auditory and technical abilities were required for such exacting work.

Chief Delaney paced back and forth behind his sonarmen, each of whom were monitoring a specific hydrophone array.

Wayne Newell has somehow convinced one of his sonarmen that imitating that signal from the Russian submarine might just save them.

Even so, the American sonarmen had picked up on the Soviet sub a few minutes earlier, despite the fact that they were traveling at fourteen knots.

Jonesy, running at max speed means you sonarmen will be out of work for a while.

It would have been a good idea, he thought, to let sonarmen read on duty.

The Scamp sonarmen had noted the passage of the three submarines an hour earlier.

Even at high speed, the thin-line array immediately began providing data to the sonarmen forward of the attack center.