Objects Buried in the Sea Bottom

As mentioned in Section 4.1.1, the extensive work of Phelan and Webb has no parallel for objects buried in the seafloor.16 Whether searching rice paddies or oceans, if a munition has been dropped from the surface, or lain in the water for very long, it is likely to have become at least partially buried in the seafloor. The understanding of the processes at work in these conditions is rudimentary at best. 

Many sensors commonly used to find objects on the seafloor prove ineffective when the objects become buried. With a more thorough understanding of the EF T of the explosive molecules in these situations, trace chemical sensors may be able to provide more success in locating these objects. 

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