Sing us a song Mister Splashy Pants!

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2008/01/hydrophone_test.html#more

We were offline all day yesterday; otherwise you would have been able to spot some the pretty spectacular icebergs on the webcam! Yesterday we tried out the hydrophone which can record whales under water. Together with Jetske, Gavin and Neil I have worked on finding the ideal way to place and deploy it from the boats. I worked with hydrophones in Brazil previously, but with another and simpler kind. There are few recordings of whales from the Southern Ocean, and I am very keen on recording whales here. This hydrophone can record from longer distances, but we also work under radically different circumstances than in Brazil. We have put heavier weights on the hydrophone, and it would be possible to record even if the boat would travel at a speed of 15 knots.
Here is a video that explains how the hydrophone works. As you can see by the t-shirts it was made before we reached these cold waters!


More:

Maybe you have some whale fluke pictures lying around? There is a group on Flickr that collects pictures of whale flukes from the Atlantic or the Pacific:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/humpbackflukes/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• greenpeace
• whale
• environment
• sound
• music
• animal
• nature
• southern
• ocean
• sea
• comunication

[bamboetcha]

she has a dutch acsent XD

[Maribee1CD]

I love the sound of the whales...

Peace!

[tiddasshell]

This is Gorgeous

Like Angels Witnessing Life from Afar

"Wings of Desire"-esque

Appreciating Complex Life

Without Dissecting or Devouring

Greenpeace, You Give Hope!

Thank You Ladies!

[Faythalie]

This is soooo interesting.

Thank you for your awesome videos and keep up the good work!

[dieneshugi]

Interesting video ,keep up the good job.

[diane18944]

This is a wonderful video. Thank you so much for sharing this important and educational video. Good work, good information. I can't thank you enough.

[danieldxm]

WOW!!

Is so Beautiful!

Thank you for sharing this kind of videos!

Is very important this informations!!

A hug.

5 stars!

[CanadianBeaver]

Peace and Love come through togetherness.

thanks for the Time to share with Us. education will solve the worlds problems and It is amazing that you are educating the World about the animlas that make this World Our home as we are the Animals that need to learn how to Live naturaly. Programed and Brainwashed to Think its out of Our Control. Its not Thanks!

[marymo75]

Poor whales :( They are so beautiful. Thankyou for recording their wonderful voices/songs. May we all be their voices too while the hunt continues.