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Panbo: CHIRPing Bottom All the Way to Bermuda

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 It's a rare day when someone calls to say he's sending marine electonics screenshots that gave him goosebumps!  The someone was Peter Braffitt of Gemeco Marine and Airmar Technology, and while he certainly has a business interest in high-performance sonar transducers, he's also a straight shooter. Besides, isn't that screen above pretty darn amazing? It was taken aboard the handsome 80-foot Merritt-built sport fishing boatSpeculator en route from Beaufort, North Carolina, to Bermuda. They not only held bottom the whole way -- even in 17,624 freakin feet of water (or 5,372 meters or 3.3 miles)! -- but they may have spotted fish at great depths too...Garmin posted a blog about the Bermuda trip yesterday and it's quite an interesting read. The writer -- who is a Garmin sonar engineer, I think -- ...Sport Fishing Mag

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