Comparing sonar images with photographs can help technicians identify what they are seeing, as can data from magnetometers.

The cascable, or breach of the gun, is on the other end. Comparing sonar images with photographs can help technicians identify what they are seeing, as can data from magnetometers, which can sense iron and steel. Images Courtesy of Rod Mather, University of Rhode Island.

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