“…Underwater research and engineering often involve underwater acoustic operations close to the seafloor, such as seafloor mapping, sub-sea gas leakage monitoring, tracking and navigation of underwater vehicles or divers, detection of submariners, and underwater acoustic communications [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Acoustic operations benefit from a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which may be compromised by noise in the ocean, e.g., from transit vessel noise and sea surface noise.…”