He was eventually rescued by fellow expedition members who used tracking equipment and dug him out after 20 minutes.

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The goal was a modernised fleet and air arm with complementary communications and tracking equipment, lower maintenance and better conditions for the crew.

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They also use more sophisticated equipment, such a GPS tracking devices and radar, to stalk their prey.

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Criminal gangs use this equipment to hide their activity, for example blocking the GPS tracking systems in the lorries or high-performance cars they seek to steal.

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What's more is that the application acts as an extension of the firm's Preva fitness tracking console built into its 880 line of cardio equipment, and keeps data synced between devices and exercise machines through the cloud.

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This new research, then, will serve multiple functions: Using specialized sensors, processors, and algorithms, the project team will measure noise in real time, tracking both the noise generated by various pieces of wave energy equipment and general background noise.

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