Underwater Microphones Eavesdrop On Icebergs

Originally published: Dec 30 2013 - 2:00pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Jyoti Madhusoodanan, ISNS Contributor(ISNS) - Icebergs are loud travelers, and underwater microphones listening in on nuclear tests can hear them. The acoustic arrays, designed to pick up minute sounds thousands of miles away, can overhear other ocean noise too: ships, marine life and icebergs.In the process, two microphone arrays off the coast of Australia tracked the sounds of two icebergs as they cracked, collided and ...