The speed varies with the medium employed (for example, sound waves move faster through water than through air), as well as with the properties of the medium, especially temperature. The speed varies depending on atmospheric conditions; the most important factor is the temperature.

The relationship of the speed of sound, its frequency, and wavelength is the same as for all waves: vw = fλ, where vw is the speed of sound, f is its frequency, and λ is its wavelength.

While sound moves at a much faster speed in the water than in air , the distance that sound waves travel is primarily dependent upon ocean temperature and pressure.

The sound waves don’t move through the air, they move through the water. Sound waves actually travel five times faster in water than in air. Underwater those sound waves don’t vibrate the ossicles bones in your inner ear. And you can’t figure out the direction sounds are coming from.

The answer is yes. While yelling underwater is still audible, it’s not nearly as effective as it is in air.

While you may not be familiar with the sounds made underwater by the humpback whales, the sounds you are able to hear are the ones created by surface behaviour. The sound this creates can be heard above and below the water.

Were you able to hear the sound you produced underwater​ If you head is submerge underwater, your skull is vibrating with sound although is is close to the same elasticity and density of water. The sound wave passes directly underwater to your head/skull.

For example, waves in water cause the surface of the water to go up and down, but the wave travels horizontally. Sound waves, however, are called longitudinal because the displacements are in the same direction that the wave is travelling.

1 Answer. As StoneyB suggested, roar and crash of the surf are common descriptions. Roar is used in sense 4, “Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise”, and crash in sense 3, “A loud sound as made for example by cymbals”.

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In the oceans the speed of sound varies between 1,450 and 1,570 metres (about 4,760 to 5,150 feet) per second. It increases about 4.5 metres (about 15 feet) per second per each 1 °C increase in temperature and 1.3 metres (about 4 feet) per second per each 1 psu increase in salinity.

The speed of sound in water increases with increasing water temperature, increasing salinity and increasing pressure (depth). The approximate change in the speed of sound with a change in each property is: Temperature 1°C = 4.0 m/s.