Fake seabed

Japanese: 偽海底 - ぎかいてい
Fake seabed

…It is an abbreviation of deep scattering layer(s), and is translated as deep sea scattering layer or deep sea sound wave scattering layer. Since the 1930s, when echo sounders started to be used, sound waves were sometimes reflected from a layer several hundred meters shallower than the actual seabed and recorded on recording paper, and this was called a false seabed, false bottom image, ghost seabed, etc. This layer is called DSL (DSL's) because it scatters sound waves in the deep sea. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "fake seabed" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…deep scattering layer(s)の略で,深海散乱層あるいは深海音波散乱層と訳す。1930年代より音響測深器が使用され始めたが,音波が実際の海底より浅い数百m付近の層から反射して記録紙に記録されることがあり,偽海底,偽底像,幽霊海底などと呼ばれた。深海で音波を散乱するという意味で,この層はDSL(DSL’s)と呼ばれる。…

※「偽海底」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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