"The more noise we put into the ocean, the more we affect the way sea dwellers communicate and live. There is now not a single space in the oceans that is free from noise pollution."
Michel André, a 2002 Rolex Awards Laureate, has just completed successful first-stage trials of the first ever whale anti-collision system. But, he says, his research raises a greater issue – the pollution of the world’s oceans with human noise.
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decibels the background noise in the ocean has increased over the last 50 years
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height, in metres, of Michel's whale anti-collision system
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sites at which André and his team are gathering acoustic data as part of the European Seafloor Observatories Network
