PORT TOWNSEND — A principal electrical engineer of the University of Washington’s applied physics lab will give a lecture intended to conjure awareness of the reality of underwater sound this ...

Mysterious, repeating sounds from the depths of the ocean can be terrifying to some, but in the 1980s, they presented a unique look at an underwater soundscape. In July 1982, researchers in New ...

Can you sound out the truth behind how sound sounds underwater? Take this quiz and find out. The speed of sound in water is two times slower than that in air.

And divers were left shocked after they heard an insane noise while they were at the bottom of the ocean. Seemingly with nothing other than their fellow divers and sea creatures in sight, they were ...

Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest places in the ocean. Recorded using underwater microphones, this cacophony can sound to our ears remarkably like frying bacon. Listen for ...

But for the Blue Planet II sound team, the challenges of portraying natural underwater soundscapes are many. Contrary to Cousteau’s notion of ‘the silent world’, the oceans are alive with sound.

It is staticky but there is an underwater noise that sounds like a thunderclap, followed by silence. You can listen to the clip here, warning it may be disturbing to some. It came after one of the ...