Yiting Shu

Silent Ocean

With the increasing amount of human activity on the ocean, underwater animals and the ecosystem are suffering from the human-produced noise inevitably. Commercial shipping is the dominant contributor of underwater noise that is sometimes ignored, as it is not visible and ship is normal transportation. However, most underwater animals sense the environment acoustically and rely on hearing to live. The noise has made the ocean a sonic world and impaired the animals’ ability to hear. Silent Ocean is an interactive system that helps seafarers to determine the appropriate speed with visual cues so that the impact of noise on underwater animals could be reduced effectively. The integrated system takes ocean noise pollution into consideration and uses the light reminder to visualize the extent to which animals are affected.