Given how poorly light and radio signals are able to travel underwater, sound is still the best medium for wireless undersea communications. Conventional underwater microphones - or hydrophones - have ...

There is a new way you can enjoy the Orcas who call the Puget Sound home. They are now starting to return to region and the Orca Network just installed a new underwater microphone, also called a ...

For centuries poets and writers have imagined the depths of the ocean as eerily quiet. But scientists now know that the oceans, and especially coastal areas, are full of sound from both natural and ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Conventional underwater microphones, known as hydrophones, have very limited ranges of sensitivity. They cannot perform well at great ...

A decent hydrophone, or underwater microphone, like the aquarium’s can hear rainfall at the sea surface, more than half a mile above. No matter where you live, it pays now and then to read the ...

Jeff Pietro from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution helps deploy an underwater microphone in California's Santa Barbara Channel. Scientists from the Benioff Ocean Initiative and Woods Hole ...

OSU and team of researchers deploy hydrophone to record rumbles from Mariana Trench This video was shot by OSU and team of researchers as they deployed a hydrophone to record rumbles from the Mariana ...

If you want to make the best equipment to listen to underwater sounds, where should you look? Most people would point you to the sales department of a high-end audio company, but a group of Stanford ...

MOSS LANDING – From the deck of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, miles of glistening water extend through patches of fog. Other than the gentle sound of the waves lapping up against the ...

MOSS LANDING – From the deck of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, miles of glistening water extend in every direction through patches of fog. Other than the gentle sound of the waves ...

The microphone is a pretty ubiquitous piece of technology that we’re all familiar with, but what if you’re not looking to record audio in the air, and instead want to listen in on what’s happening ...

There is little sign of the old naval station at Hawkcraig at Aberdour During World War One, almost 4,000 officers and men were trained at the Navy's hydrophone research base in Fife but there are few ...