Which risk increases when a submarine's sonar transducer array experiences significant biofouling?

💡 Explanation

Increased biofouling layers increase surface roughness, causing greater scattering of emitted and received sonar waves; therefore the submarine experiences increased self-noise propagation because the scattering mechanism masks weak target signals, rather than enhancing signal directionality.

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