![]() Consider a pastoral countryside that is converted into malls and airports. Adding to the noise are the rhythmic, constant seismic waves that are shot from specialized airguns on ships to penetrate the ocean floor in search of fossil fuels. These huge container ships, along with fleets of military and fishing vessels, use sonar, pings of sound that bounce off the ocean floor, to navigate. With increasingly global commerce, ships with loud engines are crisscrossing oceans on super highways, carrying the products we buy. ![]() The Sonic Sea documents the cacophony humans have created in the ocean. ![]() Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World (1956) seriously underestimated the sounds marine life make, but he may have captured a bygone time when the ocean was quieter than it is now.
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