by crabman | Sep 26, 2011 | SEA News
Today the offshore forecast remained poor and the inshore seas were a mixture of swell and shop from different directions. With the conditions, we turned our attention back to Risso’s dolphins (below photo credit A. Friedlander, taken under NMFS permit #14534) and...
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...
