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From The Engineer:
A nautical version of 'cat's eyes' developed by defence scientists to mark and find underwater locations could also be used to locate oil fields or transatlantic cables, and help to avoid dolphins and whales being caught up in fishing nets.
Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have successfully shown in sea trials that the new underwater cat's eye can reflect back a tuned signal, revealing its location, to existing sonar systems (for example, those mounted on maritime vessels).
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