Sound can travel through water for enormous distances, prevented from dissipating its acoustic energy as a result of boundaries in the ocean created by water layers of different temperatures and densities.
prevented from dissipating its acoustic energy as a result of
prevented from having its acoustic energy dissipated by
its acoustic energy prevented from dissipating by
its acoustic energy prevented from being dissipated as a result of
preventing its acoustic energy from dissipating by
dissipate的主语也不是sound,因此用了ing无主语的形式