by crabman | Sep 22, 2011 | SEA News
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...
by crabman | Sep 21, 2011 | SEA News
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...
by crabman | Sep 16, 2011 | SEA News
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...
by crabman | Aug 13, 2011 | SEA News
We have come to the end of the first leg of SOCAL-11. We worked offshore the last two days based on the forecast of light winds and calm seas, but this didn’t entirely materialize. We worked up by Santa Barbara Island in relatively low winds but moderate swell,...
by crabman | Aug 10, 2011 | SEA News
We’ve had some pretty good conditions in deeper water the last few days and have had success finding baleen whales in deeper water and have spent a lot of time searching for beaked whales as well. From the picture below you can see the calm conditions we have had in...
