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Mote Marine Laboratory

Of all of the anthropogenic noise sources in the marine environment, construction and demolition noise and their effects have received perhaps the least attention, and yet...
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Open Access Journal Article

International Journal of Comparative Psychology

Sound in the oceans is generated by a variety of natural sources, such as breaking waves, rain, and marine animals, as well as a variety of...
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Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Thirty-eight TNT ant 18 HBX-3 charges weighing one, eight, and fifty pounds were fired at depths betweeen 500 and 14,000 ft; pressure-time data were measured directly...
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Keywords: Depth, Explosion, Pressure
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

In 1969 an underwater test facility was constructed specifically to study the biological effects produced by underwater blast. Investigations were conducted to determine the ranges from...
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Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Experimental measurements of the peak pressure and sound exposure level (SEL) from underwater explosions collected 7 km off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia are presented....
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Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The initial pressure wave measured at modest distances from an underwater explosion is often modeled as a spherical shock wave with an exponential decay. A closed-form...
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Pressure–time records from the underwater detonation of 8-, 48-, and 1000-lb explosive charges are presented. These data allow a limited verification of the extrapolation of depth...
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Experimental measurements are reported in this article for the source levels of 0.82-kg signals underwater sound (SUS) charges detonated at nominal depths of 18.3, 91, and...
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Measurements of the properties of shallow underwater explosions have been obtained in recent experiments with 0.82-kg SUS (signal underwater sound) charges at depths from 23.5 to...
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IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Underwater explosions with energy yields equivalent to less than 40 kg of TNT are detected at hydrophones in the deep-sound channel at distances up to 16...
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