If you enjoy sailing on the sea, then opt for a less noisy kayak or sailing boat. Speedboats and motorboats are indeed faster, but they create excessive noise.
Noise pollution is becoming a bigger problem on the Baltic Sea all the time as well – it affects communication between fish and marine animals. Namely, many marine mammals use whistling or sounds resembling song to communicate, which in favourable conditions can travel many kilometres. Grey seals, for example, ‘clap’ their flippers to communicate.
All kinds of water traffic and construction work generate far-reaching noise. If large stakes are rammed into the sea bed when constructing quays and wind parks, the noise this produces drives away all of the animals living in the sea.