"We detect the sound with our ears, we track it through our system, and then we classify it," said Sonar Technician (Submarine) 1st Class Andrew Whitson, a Trident Training Facility instructor at ...

ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN — A sonar technician listening through his headset caught the trail of an enemy submarine just before a line of warships cruised through waters between Catalina and San ...

PHILIPPINE SEA — Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Terry Leininger, from Tuscan, Ariz., monitors active sonar in sonar control aboard the forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ...

Sonar Technician 2nd Class Terrance Francis, from Donaldsonville, is assigned to Task Force 71/Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th fleet’s ...

The U.S. Naval Training Support Center honored a sonar technician for saving the life of a man who fell into San Diego Bay last month, the Navy announced Wednesday. While walking near the docks at the ...

Investigators probing the collision between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing trawler are reviewing whether the accident occurred because the sub’s commanding officer was given an incorrect ...

A submarine lives and dies by noise. A sign that reads “silence is victory” hangs on a shower door as a reminder that anything loud could give away the submarine’s position to a well-trained enemy ear ...

PORTLAND — Mark Manzer sat aboard the nuclear submarine USS Sam Houston as it glided through the Pacific Ocean’s depths. The sonar technician listened through headphones to the noises picked up by the ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The Navy court of inquiry into the Greeneville collision is increasingly critical of the way the submarine captain trained and supervised sailors entrusted with operating the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A black shape perched on the side of an underwater volcano could be the USS Grunion, believed sunk during World War II, sonar technicians who investigated the site say. Sonar ...