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22/08/2012
Specialist Sonar Equipment Brought In To Search For Dylan Cecil
Specialist sonar equipment has been brought to assist in the ongoing search for the body of a boy missing off the Somerset coast.
Four-year-old Dylan Cecil feel from a jetty at Burnham-on-Sea on Sunday evening. A search operation was launched but has so far been unsuccessful.
UK rescue organisation SARbot tested its equipment overnight and will begin searching the water on Wednesday.
The charity, which will also use an underwater robot, says its sonar is more sensitive than those used by police.
Duncan Winsbury, chief executive of SARbot, said: "We have developed the sonar at such a high frequency that it can actually see people under water.
"We're using a side-scan sonar. It sends out a beam of about 30 - 50m on each side so we can cover quite a big area.
"Depth and water clarity doesn't matter, because it's actually sound waves converted to a picture for us.
"We have to draw on local knowledge in these areas, using the police, coastguard, RNLI and their knowledge of tides, such as where debris ends up and things like that.
"If they can place us in those areas the chances [of finding him] are quite high."
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Four-year-old Dylan Cecil feel from a jetty at Burnham-on-Sea on Sunday evening. A search operation was launched but has so far been unsuccessful.
UK rescue organisation SARbot tested its equipment overnight and will begin searching the water on Wednesday.
The charity, which will also use an underwater robot, says its sonar is more sensitive than those used by police.
Duncan Winsbury, chief executive of SARbot, said: "We have developed the sonar at such a high frequency that it can actually see people under water.
"We're using a side-scan sonar. It sends out a beam of about 30 - 50m on each side so we can cover quite a big area.
"Depth and water clarity doesn't matter, because it's actually sound waves converted to a picture for us.
"We have to draw on local knowledge in these areas, using the police, coastguard, RNLI and their knowledge of tides, such as where debris ends up and things like that.
"If they can place us in those areas the chances [of finding him] are quite high."
(H)
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