Tag Archive for 'marine mammals'

Sperm whale video from 900m down

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Jason
on March 25, 2006
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Interesting chance encounter between a sperm whale and a ROV at depth.

…a video filmed on Saturday, March 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at Mississippi Canyon 711 Field in 3,000 feet of water. They were inspecting the flow line jumper and saw this. (via)

Distributed Marine Mammal Identification

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Jason
on March 12, 2006
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From the Flickr blog, an interesting opportunity for citizen scientist and a novel use of Flickr:

[64x54, 4K]“People have been submitting good humpback whale fluke shots to a group called Humpback whale flukes. I volunteer at Allied Whale which holds the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog and I was able to make a very exciting match with one of the whales that was posted on the group by GeorgeK.

George saw this whale in Newfoundland in the summer of 2005. It matched with HWC#2943 in the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catolog ….. this whale was seen only once before in March 1984!!! on Silver Bank (the breeding grounds North of the Dominican Republic).

This is what flickr has the power to do.”