In May 2021 Hakai Magazine published a five-episode mini podcast called The Sound Aquatic. While our team has a break over the holidays, we’re bringing you that series. Here’s the final episode, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
By now, we know the ocean is anything but silent. Fish grunt, whales moan, reefs roar with the deafening sound of snapping shrimp, and even natural sounds like waves and rain can be heard throughout the ocean. But people have taken it to the next (decibel) level, with global shipping, oil and gas rigs and exploration, sonar, and fishing and recreational boats. Can we learn to be good neighbors and turn the noise down? On this final episode of The Sound Aquatic, we try to find out.
Find show notes and a transcript at hakaimagazine.com/the-sound-aquatic.
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Can We Really Be Friends with an Octopus?
Oil Rigs Are a Refuge in a Dying Sea
A Key Tool for Cleaning Up Oil Spills Is More Hazardous Than Helpful
Bonus Episode: Deep-Sea Mining Demystified
Alaska’s Absent Snowy Owls
My Family’s Pacific Island Home Is Grappling with Deep-Sea Mining
Checkpoints, Machine Guns, and Fences: This Pakistani Port Is Not for the People
Rebroadcast: When Mountains Fall into the Sea
What Whale Barnacles Know
Rebroadcast: The Local-Carb Diet
Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?
Stitching Hope
Rebroadcast: Defenders of the Forgotten Fish
Raising Baby Sharks from the Dead
Surrogacy Across Species
Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game
Flying by the Fat of the Sea
Rebroadcast: The Mysterious Disappearance of Keith Davis
A Cancer-Quashing Microbe Emerges from the Deep
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