How Sound Rules Life Underwater
Amorina Kingdon’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Sing Like Fish. The post How Sound Rules Life Underwater appeared first on Nautilus.
1 Sound travels very differently in water than air.
Like most humans, I assumed that sound didn’t work well in water. After all, Jacques Cousteau himself called the ocean the “silent world.” I thought, beyond whales, aquatic animals must not use sound much.
How wonderfully wrong I was.
In water a sound wave travels four and a half times faster, and loses less energy, than in air. It moves farther and faster and carries information better.
In the
