Searching for Silence is a series of short films exploring the world’s oceans in order to find the last remaining pristine marine soundscapes before they are lost to man-made noise pollution. They aim to raise awareness about the effects of marine noise pollution on global ecosystems. A soundscape full of noise pollution is like a world so blindingly bright, you can barely see. As we discover and explore more, the world of sound becomes clearer and clearer.
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Much of the marine life in the Azores is specialized to live in deep depths. Here, light is very low or non-existent and food, prey, predators, and conspecifics like potential mates, are spread out all over the large expanse of dark, featureless water. Sound is the light in the dark for the creatures that live here. They use it to navigate, hunt, bond socially, communicate, and evade potential dangers.