Effect on Ocean Noise: Nyepi, a Balinese Day of Silence

• Main Authors: Williams, Rob, Erbe, Christine, Dewantama, I Made Iwan, Hendrawan, I Gede
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Center for Open Science 2018
• Subjects: Bali; McCauley; Humpback Whale; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.31230/osf.io/k45jv

Taking advantage of a religious holiday called Nyepi that curtailed human activities for one day, we recorded acoustic noise levels for one week in shallow waters of a little-trafficked area west of Bali below the Ngurah Rai airport flight path (Figure 1). Sound is as important to many marine organi...