The deep tow boomer was developed by BGS to further enhance their seismic suite of tools to gain high-resolution images from deeper targets. The tool can operate in water depths of down to 2000 m and as shallow as 100 m. The boomer has a penetration of up to150 m sec with a resolution of 1 ms or less. The idea is based on towing both source and streamer closer to the sea bed, (higher along track resolution) and in an acoustically quiet environment found at depth.

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