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Military units conducting amphibious landings (vehicles, equipment, personnel from sea to shore) need an accurate system of surveying the beach for obstacles, hazards, sand bars, and water depths. This is crucial for vehicle safety and personnel drop-off. Failure could result in massive loss of life.

   The current solution involves combat swimmers being inserted into the area to be surveyed,
   after aligning themselves using one of many challenging and time-consuming methods,
   the team begins to make step-by-step movements through the area in question. Every time the team
   takes a step they stop, use a rudimentary weighted line to measure the ocean depth, scan for obstacles,
   and record the results on a home-made fiberglass slate.

   ABSS

   The ABSS solution provides a technologically up-to-date, more accurate and approperiate than the current
   or any other solution available. (see competition matrix). The actual ABSS device seen here is hand-held,
   incorperates a GPS reciever hardware, a fathometer, a programmed chip, and satelite mapping software technology
   to make very accurate and efficient collections of depth and obstacle data at any given location.

   The time benefits of a team using the ABSS devices over the current 
   solution means less time in the water, which is of course less danger to the soldiers.
   (see the time benefit graph)

   Data collected using the ABSS is as said before, vastly superior to the 
   current method and will allow both the navigators on the water
   and the brass planning the attack to have real numbers, not guesstimate locations.

   This means that there is almost no danger to ships or personnel from
   obstacles or incorrect depth measurements.