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Published online 9 November 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1069
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Whale-song recording goes deep
Underwater glider eavesdrops on cetacean communication.
Silently slipping to 1,000 metres below the ocean surface, an undersea glider equipped with a recording device is cruising off Hawaii to capture unprecedented detail on the sounds made by whales.
The experiment represents the first time that an acoustic-equipped glider has been deployed to this depth in the open ocean to record data from a specific marine mammal.
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Why not just ask the US navy to hand over data obtained from ships(especially subs) that monitor and record all kinds of acoustic events under the sea all over the world all the time?