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How do modern oceanographic vessels determine their position?

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How do modern oceanographic vessels determine their position?

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They use GPS (Global Positioning System) where the ship etc searches for as many radio signals from geosynchronous orbit satellites as it can get. It then triangulates its position by determining the direction and angle that it receives the signals. Same process that modern airliners use.

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