– Why does everything sound muffled underwater if sound travels 4x faster in water?

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– Why does everything sound muffled underwater if sound travels 4x faster in water?

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When you put your head underwater, a bubble of air will be trapped in your ear. Sound has to travel through the water, pass from the water into the air, and then pass from the air to the ear’s diaphragm. Each of these passages is imperfect and sound is weakened and distorted.

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