Tap the map to choose a water point You’ll confirm the point before the profile loads.

Lesson 01

Read the sound-speed profile

About this project

Built to make one difficult idea visible.

Not PC-IMAT is a personal teaching aid that connects a public-climatology sound-speed profile at a selected map point to an idealized, range-independent acoustic ray picture.

Creator

LT Sean Egan, PhD United States Navy · Created for fellow METOC officers and Aerographer’s Mates.

sean@theinformed.org

Acknowledgment

Special thanks to AG1 Derek Conklin for teaching me RP-33 and fact-checking this teaching aid. I couldn’t have done it without him.

How it was made

Python processes and packages the environmental data; FastAPI serves compact profile requests; Leaflet displays self-hosted terrain tiles; browser-native SVG and Canvas draw the teaching views; and Manim renders the narrated lessons.

Sources and methods

Terrain: GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group 2026 (2026), The GEBCO_2026 Grid, doi:10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa.

Independent educational visualization. Not an official U.S. Navy product, operational acoustic prediction, or navigation aid.