Sound travels more than four times faster in water than in air — about 1,480 metres per second underwater versus 343 in air. In this video you learn: why water's tightly packed molecules carry vibrations so much faster; why divers hear a boat engine or a whale's song from kilometres away; and why divers still cannot tell where a sound is coming from.
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