Feast or Famine

Well, after the first four days of this second leg of SOCAL-11 with no suction cup tag attachments and marginal weather conditions we had a good day today.  We attached a total of five tags on three blue whales and a Risso’s dolphin and conducted the third-ever CEE on...

Offshore to start SOCAL-11 leg II…

We spent the first four days of the second leg of SOCAL-11 well offshore working deep basins and canyons in search of beaked whales.  Sorry for being out of touch,but we have spent the last three nights we stayed near Santa Cruz, San Nicholas, and Santa Barbara...

START SOCAL-11 leg II and NEW BLOG SITE!!!

Hi everyone — two important things to announce here. First, we are all aboard the R/V Truth (below) and our sister sailing ship with towed passive acoustics ready to go for the second leg of SOCAL-11 starting tomorrow at dawn.  While it looks like it will be a little...