While the technology is pre-commercial right now, Atlantis has built full-scale, functional unit, he said.

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The objectives are to quantify the ocean soundscape on global scales, determine behavioral change thresholds of various species, and examine the functional relationship between sound and the viability of key marine organisms, at an individual scale, a species scale and the ecosystem level.

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