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Do You Hear What I Hear?

August 13, 2018
Close-up view of a linear hydrophone array; the hydrophone is the black device inside the cable.

Photo: Michelle Greene

The acoustics team uses a linear array to listen to the sounds that whales and dolphins make under the water. [...] The array has been towing behind the ship with the “line” of hydrophones parallel to the surface of the water about 10 meters below the surface. When the array is deployed, the acoustics team uses a computer software called PAMGuard to record the sounds and track the clicks and whistles of whales and dolphins.
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