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No, the pitch (frequency) does not change, but its speed is much greater* because you are using a totally different medium to transmit the sound, some frequencies can carry farther under water than they do in the air and other frequencies (the high frequencies) can't go as far in water. Sound is a wave the lower the wave the farther it can travel, the higher the wave the shorter distance it can go before it loses it's energy by the dampening effect of the medium.

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*Mean sound speed in air: 340m/s. In sea-water, about 1500m/s.

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The higher the frequency the greater the damping attenuation, on top of the frequency-independent square-law attenuation by distance anyway, in any medium.

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