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ISSN 2083-6473
ISSN 2083-6481 (electronic version)
Editor-in-Chief
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Prof. Tomasz Neumann
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TransNav, Faculty of Navigation
Gdynia Maritime University
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Development of the Effective Underwater Speaker Sound Modulated by Audible Sound Frequency Range of Large Cetaceans for Avoidance with Ship Collision
1 Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
ABSTRACT: The underwater speaker (UWS) has been installed on high speed vessels; hydrofoils (HF) with low-noise during their cruises, to avoid sudden collisions with large cetaceans, while its performance has remained uncertain because of the problem in quality of the produced sound. Thus, we developed a sound source for the UWS by modulating the sound based on the audible range of major large cetaceans so as to increase its utilities. To investigate the audible sound frequency range of cetacean, we tried two procedures, (1) indirect-estimation from relationship between cetaceans audibility and vocalization, and (2) indirect-estimation from measurements on the cochlear basal membrane. We also synthesized the two new sound sources which we can potentially expect an avoidance with large cetaceans. Through several field experiments with deploy the new sounds we reached a tentative conclusion that the new sound was effective in terms of inducing the cetaceans' avoidance reaction and would be also expected to be applied to other low-noise vessels.
KEYWORDS: Hydroacoustics, Hydrofoils, Cetaceans, Large Cetaceans, Underwater Speaker (UWS), Underwater Speaker Sound, Audible Sound Frequency Range, Avoidance with Ship Collision
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Citation note:
Yamada H., Kobayashi N., Nakashima T., Kato H.: Development of the Effective Underwater Speaker Sound Modulated by Audible Sound Frequency Range of Large Cetaceans for Avoidance with Ship Collision. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 9, No. 2, doi:10.12716/1001.09.02.08, pp. 213-217, 2015
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