Show us your Side Image pics

[seaquest1]

i am brand new to lowrance ss d/scan
i have neen out took some images of a wreck and a big rock today
got them on the screen perfect
but when i open the files on the screen images are poor not reconizable
so took home and tried in laptop cant open
i will be doing something wrog can anyone advise please
regards
mike

[Simon B]

Mike,

Just remembered, one of the Lowrance tutorials on youtube mentioned taking auto zoom off and log all outputs at the highest bit rate/sampling rate. We have found that you seem to get a lot more detail if you screen shot something rather than taking a capture from a logged file.

Though to be fair it might just be us not recording the log file properly.

[diverdad]

Had a play wit the starfish sidescan sonar on Sunday at a local pond.
Attached is a scan of a small canoe stern cobble with wheelhouse.
Image is a little shakey as I was in my kayak but still learning with this thing!

[Simon B]

That is looking good! Impressed, what depth is it in?

[diverdad]

I have to confess Simon B, the wreck is only in about 4m of water. I had the fish 2m down which is about level, (or just above) the wheelhouse roof.

It was sunk many years ago as a attraction for local divers.

Lee

[diverdad]

Whatever you do, don't roll the Kayak!!


Lee

[Jeff]

Viewing the recording from Lowrance HDS5 on a PC and then taking a screenshot
P555 sub in West Bay and then a couple from Oban
I have found sidescan quite limited by depth - but the downscan really does give a good image and helps identify wrecks from rocks !
I wish I had a console like the Yanks and could have a 10" screen

[matt h]

Gonna try my Garmin out this weekend Jeff. Maybe west bay direction as well!!

[Jeff]

I have been delighted with the Sonar and StructureScan and the quality of the Navionics mapping against Garmin. Structurescan is amazing - In my 'annual' holiday to Paxos Greece I had been looking for a wreck for 5 years with my normal (and good) Garmin 340C. This was an intact wreck on a reef top at 17m, ovehanging with the prop at 42m - perfect until the winter storms 'moved' it. I had tried a number of searches by diving - following the debris trail down/across, but giving up at 60m and delighted SWMBO with trawling with the echo every year to find nothing.

Well, thanks to technology I located it in 2012 - though a tad deep for me ! The bottom on downscan is 74.5 m.
Piccy here - the record function is ace; much easier to view on the laptop afterwards and with all depths & GPS identifiable ( but not on the screenshot here) Look at the normal sonar scan v structuredownscan. This is a screenshot off my PC using Sonar View on the SL2 recording. Using the GPS position from the recording I was easily able to relocate in 2013 and decided given the size /height of the wreck had a go and successfully dived it in 2013,,, & 14. You can see the crows nest on the downscan image :-)

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by matt h

Gonna try my Garmin out this weekend Jeff. Maybe west bay direction as well!!

Hope it goes well - West Bay is stunning for the quality of wrecks isn't it ,,,, plenty of super-sized crustaceans too

Jeff

[Simon B]

Jeff, we have really struggled with the sidescan part of structure scan, the key thing seems to be getting the offset right form the wreck so it is put in adequate "shadow" to show the relief correctly like the bigger systems do.

We could have fitted a 12" into our console but the funds and the will to spend them werent there.

[A1an]

Jeff, I'm going to fish The Breeda on the 6th Dec, good to see its still above silt level.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by A1an

Jeff, I'm going to fish The Breeda on the 6th Dec, good to see its still above silt level.

Only just Alan ! Personally I hate the wreck but a couple of my mates still enjoy it ,,,
Hope you get a good catch

[Simon B]

Some more from Falmouith

[Simon B]

The above/below from The Hera, in Kiberick cove.