Underwater Dynamic Mapping - U-boat 576

On July 15th,1942, the German U-boat 576 was sunk off the coast of North Carolina. Today, you can see an amazing 3D image of U-576 in the form of processed point cloud. This was created using a revolutionary new dynamic underwater mobile scanning technique using lasers. Using Sonardyne’s LBL acoustic positioning technology, coupled with SPRINT INS, Syrinx Doppler navigation and 2G Robotics’ ULS-500 laser mounted to a manned submersible, NOAA were able to fly over the sunken U-boat whilst simultaneously taking continuous laser scans.