Imagine standing on a rocky shore, feeling the salt spray on your face and hearing the soothing crash of waves. Beneath the ...

The ocean is wide, vast, and terrifying. But for the last 40 years, researchers around the world have been recording audio from hydrophones to try to understand it better. And we've learned a lot.

Scientists find that Aleutian Island passes and the northern Gulf of Alaska remain key feeding grounds for this rare whale To locate endangered North Pacific right whales, scientists listen for their ...

In 2010, the GA Oceans resolution noted underwater noise as a potential threat to living marine resources and affirmed the importance of sound scientific studies in addressing ... and that this threat ...

Even with these systems, navigation is difficult and some submarines still hit underwater mountains. While traversing the ocean's surface ... as well as the presence of marine animals. There are two ...

Recorded using underwater microphones, this cacophony can sound to our ears remarkably like frying bacon ... to be the loudest animal in the ocean. Reef sounds are beneficial to some marine animals, ...

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.

It is important to remember that marine animals ... with each other. Sound travels nearly five times faster underwater than in air, and loud sounds can be heard across entire ocean basins; indeed ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the ... that catch small animals that float by in the moving water.

In the murky depths of the ocean, one predator has a trait that exacerbates the dread it inspires as it slides through the ocean waves.

Brian Skerry dives to photograph some of the most elusive animals in the ocean, sometimes on just ... issue of National Geographic magazine. For underwater photographer Brian Skerry, there are ...