The study aims at prediction of the intensity of Aeolian sound created under water by an ocean current passing a wire or cable. Particular application is a mooring line of a deep‐sea taut‐moored buoy. The work is based on a paper by Phillips [J. Fluid Mech.1, 607–624 (1956)] but the difference in scale between sound waves in air and in water necessitates the extension of Phillips' equations into the acoustical nearfield. A brief outline of the theory and numerical values are given.