Northeast Pacific Blue Whale Call

Northeastern Pacific blue whale calls are perhaps the best known blue whale call to date. They generally consist of two parts, A and B. The A call is a series of pulses (on the order of 1.5 pulses/s) which often exhibits side-banding and the B call is a long FM moan. A short (8s) upswept call (C) is occasionally seen between A and B and Thompson et al. (1996) report a short, sharp downsweep. These calls have been recorded from offshore Vancouver Island B.C., Washington and Oregon, California and off Mexico in the Gulf of California (reviewed in Rivers 1997), and in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (Stafford 1996, 1997).
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http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds_whales.html

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[sadface0]

yeah.. imagine you're underwater all by yourself. It's dark and murky, you can barely see anything, then you hear this.. you're scared shitless then all of a sudden the biggest fucking whale you've ever seen come outta nowhere and swims right over your head...

*faints*

[GOOCHIEZ]

The deep blue color of deep ocean is scary enough and come with that sound...........I'll shit myself to death

[confederacysoldier]

@sadface0 I would die of fear. I have somewhat of a phobia of whales.

[Tstn53]

@sadface0 fag

[SR71pilot2007]

i heard a blue whale call at the aquarium in altlanta, ga, and i don't think it was sped up any, i believe they had special subwoofers and increased volume so we could hear it, and it was the lowest tone i've ever heard

[hgcupcake6]

Interesting. Great for my project :D

[Mw2Shazmin]

All I know about blues whales is that they are the largest mammals in the world, and they need to breathe near a surface and if we go near a blue whale and it makes a noise it will be so loud for us they would probably bust our ears, they are loud!!!

[TheShadowWarrior101]

Is it true that we humans can't actually hear their sound underwater? I always thought that the octave was way too low for our ears to pick up...

[DoomRulz]

@gingerisevil02 You're right, the whale wouldn't be the least bit interested in a human but I'm sure that's not the first thing that would be going through someone's head the instant they see a 100 foot long blue whale swimming at them, coming out of murky blue water, that you can't see more than 10 feet in front of you, LOL

[Xxmv95heatxX]

@gingerisevil02 thats right. i will just be scare of her opening her mouth while im in front of her

or him

[gingerisevil02]

Why is everyone talking about being scared? Sure I wouldn't want to swim with one because of it's sheer size it's kinda scary but I'd be more scared to be in the water with a shark. It's nature gentle giant; it's not gonna eat or kill you!! It's a highly intelligent creature. I find them incredible. 100 ft long that's just mind boggling!! I'd love to see on someday whilst in a boat or something. They're rare its sad. I think that sound is so trippy as well!!