This page contains a selection of audio files that were recorded underwater, related video and animation products, and several spectograms and other images of ocean sound. Click any image below to listen and learn more about sound in the sea.

Audio, Video & Animations
Images

 

audio icon Audio, video icon Video & Animations

Ocean sound data transmittal Fin Whale Audio Blue whale audio Hydrophone Installation video

video icon Ocean sound data transmittal (animation)

Audio icon Fin whale (48 K, QuickTime)

Audio icon Blue whale (48 K, QuickTime)

video icon Hydrophone Installation (9.4 Mb, QuickTime)

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Scale of various frequencies audio "Bloop" -  an unidentified sound "Slow Down" - an unidntified noise Minke whale audio

Audio icon Frequency Scale (576 K, QuickTime)

Audio icon "Bloop," an unidentified sound (452k K, QuickTime)

Audio icon "Slow Down" an unidentified noise (788k, QuickTime)

Audio icon Minke whales (785k, QuickTime)

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Fin whale audio Humpback whale audio Blue whale audio Seismic airguns audio

Audio icon Fin whale (785k , QuickTime)

Audio icon Humpback whale (785k, QuickTime)

Audio icon Blue whale (380k, QuickTime)

Audio icon Seismic airguns (816k, QuickTime)

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ship's propeller audio NOAA Ship Ronald audio volcanic tremor audio Earthquake audio

Audio icon Ship's propeller (816k, QuickTime)

Audio icon NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown (848k, QuickTime)

Audio icon Volcanic tremor-like signals (1.1Mb, QuickTime)

Audio icon Earthquake (44k, QuickTime)


Images

Autonomous Underwater Hydrophone (AUH) mooring Determining the hydrophone's location Potential / exisiting hydrophone sites SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS)

Autonomous Underwater Hydrophone (AUH) mooring (HR)

Finding the hydrophone

Potential / exisiting hydrophone sites

SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS)

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Autonomous moored hydrophones Securing the cable end Lowering the hydrophone array Basic components of a sound wave

Autonomous moored hydrophones

Securing the cable end

Lowering the hydrophone array

Basic components of a sound wave

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Same amplitude, different frequency Same frequency, different amplitude SOFAR Channel

Same amplitude, different frequency

Same frequency, different amplitude

SOFAR Channel