The signals would not cause any actual tissue damage, but it's possible that they affect the behavior of some marine mammals, which rely heavily on sound to communicate, navigate, and find food.

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Complex call produced by a bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) in Barrow Alaska; taken from the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database. As part of the IQOE, Aran Mooney, a scientist at the Woods Hole ...

Water is an excellent medium for sound propagation, much better than air, so it is realistic to think that a large majority of marine animals obey sound signals.

But sound can travel thousands of miles and link animals across oceanic basins and in darkness, Duarte says. As a result, many marine species are impeccably adapted to detect and communicate with ...

Was the sound of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 striking the water ... 447 could not detect crash signals from ... Alec Duncan of Curtin University’s Centre for Marine Science ...

Marine animals depend heavily on sound. Sound is one of the few communication signals that travel quickly across long distances in the oceans and are not stopped by low light levels or objects ...