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9 - Ship Noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2021

By
Salvatore Viola  and
Virginia Sciacca
Edited by
Stephen de Mora ,
Timothy Fileman  and
Thomas Vance
Stephen de Mora
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Timothy Fileman
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Thomas Vance
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Summary

Anthropogenic underwater noise has severely increased over the last century and a significant component of noise in marine environments is due to ship traffic. Every year at sea, we observe the continuous movement of more than 60,000 medium to very large commercial vessels, such as cargo ships, bulk carriers, container vessels, tankers, cruise ships and ferries (Equasis, 2015). The incredible increase in commercial maritime trade and the related increase in vessel speed of the last 40 years have raised the amount of noise that ship traffic is spreading throughout the oceans. From the 1960s, when the first measures of noise levels were reported (Wenz, 1962), until the 1990s, underwater noise has almost doubled every 10 years (Andrew et al., 2002; McDonald et al., 2006a; Merchant et al., 2012). While some recent studies describe slowly decreasing low-frequency ocean noise levels at different oceanic locations during the early 2000s (Andrew et al., 2011; Miksis-Olds et al., 2016), the typical and long-term trends for ship noise are still unknown in many regions of the world (Viola et al., 2017).

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Environmental Impact of Ships , pp. 225 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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