DUMAND Project

The DUMAND Project (Deep Underwater Muon And Neutrino Detector Project) was a proposed underwater neutrino telescope to be built in the Pacific Ocean, off the shore of the island of Hawaii,[1] five kilometers beneath the surface.

It would have included thousands of strings of instruments occupying a cubic kilometer of the ocean.

The proposal called for two types of detectors: optical detectors to find the Cherenkov radiation emitted by secondary particles traveling faster than the speed of light in water, resulting from collisions by neutrinos, and hydrophones to listen for the acoustic signals generated by the interactions.

Work began in about 1976, at Keahole Point, but the project cancelled in 1995 due to technical difficulties.

The DUMAND hardware was also donated to NESTOR, to reduce costs and cut on development and construction time.