It was reportedly detected by an autonomous underwater vehicle which took sonar images of the site and matched them with the dimensions of the lost Japanese warship.
Using sonar equipment and autonomous underwater vehicles, they navigated trenches, volcanoes and underwater mountains, searching for a debris field up to six kilometers below the surface.
There's also a sonar scanner and after that will send in divers to find the position of the black box and hopefully we can retrieve the black box and the flight wreckage.
They do, however, have a very special talent for using their noises to find their way about the oceans and to locate shoals of fish. This is a kind of sonar - an echo-location system.
The submarine's sonar picks up an approaching submarine in the shape of an octopus that is controlled by Count Olaf, but it swiftly speeds away because of a large, mysterious object in the ocean.
With the help of sonar sound and other underwater detection equipment, the rescuers located the vessel at a depth of 65.1 meters without any signs of life.
The sonar was actually detecting huge masses of tiny animals known as zooplankton ascending from the depths to the surface every night and returning down again.
In 1985, using state-of-the-art sonar, National Geographic explorer Robert Ballard and French oceanographer Jean Louie Misho found the infamous shipwreck about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland.
Before finding the Yangtze River Estuary No.2, Shanghai had found a well-preserved iron wreck in Yangtze estuary with techniques including sonar scanning in 2015.