Are whale clicks exponentially magnified as soon as your ear submerges under the water?
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Are you able to hear the clicks outside of the water?
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Sound travels faster through water. The more dense the medium, the faster sound travels.
You can also think of that as having less signal degradation through the denser material, so it seems louder and can travel further from the source.
As far as whether you can hear them out if the water, this video suggests that you can- they only heard the whales after the boat's engine was shut down, so it was very faint, but once he gets a mic in the water, it's much louder and clearer.