“…1 In the maritime industry, heretofore, the impact of vessels on the environment was considered just in terms of atmospheric pollutant formation from the prime movers (Trivyza et al, 2021), release of toxic compounds from hull coatings (Torres and De-la Torre, 2021), or importation of exotic biological species through ballast water (Lakshmi et al, 2021) and biofouling (Song et al, 2020). Underwater Radiated Noise (URN) was just recently categorised as a form of pollution (Vakili et al, 2020a) due to the substantial increase of noise pollution on oceans worldwide (Sezen et al, 2021b). URN not only has severe effect on the marine ecosystem (Ferrier-Pagès et al, 2021;Di Franco et al, 2020) but also affects the crew and passenger comfort (Oldenburg et al, 2010).…”