Using An Undersea Glider To Record a Terabyte of Whale Noises
At the tail-end of last year, researchers managed to successfully collect close to a terabyte of recordings of beaked whales off the coast of Hawaii, using the first acoustic-equipped undersea glider to travel to the depths, some 1,000m down. It was notable because normal acoustic recording instruments can’t detect the beaked whales’ noises, which mostly…