by crabman | Sep 25, 2011 | SEA News
At the top of our list of objectives for SOCAL-BRS is to obtain direct measurements of the responses of beaked whales to simulated military sonar. Yesterday we had remarkably fair seas (as in zero wind for almost the whole day), which are the conditions required for...
by crabman | Sep 23, 2011 | SEA News
Thursday started off calm but foggy. This can be a little interesting coming out of Long Beach across the busy shipping lanes, but this is where the animals live. Our objective today was to retrieve some of the tags deployed yesterday that had still been riding...
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...
