Lighthouse Serious beacon Sea-keeping reason Ancient way to light the night And guard capes out of sight Tall, slender building With light guiding Pulses short – pulses long Helps the sea-going throng Comfort of sailors And ancient mariners The flash dispels the dark With each rotating arc Some headlands provide A […]
Killer Whales – A poem by Micheline Jenner
Killer Whales Killer whales As the name entails Are partial to mammals Especially other animals Deer and seals All become meals Also white shark Reality quite stark Top ocean predator A killing pre-meditator Kills efficient Not complacent Tall dorsal pose Brings ocean of prose Life at sea Efficiently Close knit […]
Day 10 Voyage Report
Day 10 Common dolphins comin’ in! (Written on Jan 28, 2013) The moon, oh, I love our moon –it streams a path to the portside wheelhouse door in between the intermittent cloud cover. Tonight on our screen a strong constant energy pulse at 50 Hz with tones at 40 and 60 Hz dominates, possibly blue […]
Hey True Blue! a Poem by Micheline Jenner
Hey True Blue! True Blue Now Antarctic blue It’s Australia Day! Please come out to play We’d love to see you And get a pic or two This is the day we wear our boardies And have a swim and barbies But out here on the blue We have a few things to […]
Day 9 Voyage Report
Day 9 Three Blues before Lunch! (Written on Jan 27, 2013) At midnight as I come on watch Maria has had orcas, sperm whales, the aliens and blue whales. It is a veritable cacophony of animals out here chatting at night. We deploy and monitor three sets of sonobuoys through the wee hours and only […]
Day 8 Voyage Report via satellite
Day 8 G’ Day Mate! (Written on Jan 26, 2013) “G’ day mate!” I greeted the wheelhouse gang as I enter in my Australian flag printed singlet. Paper cups, serviettes and Australian flag tattoos lift the ship’s patriotic spirits and as the morning progresses the sun bursts through and it feels as though we are […]
Day 7 Voyage Report via satellite
Listening vs Looking (Written on Jan 25, 2013) At 00:06:09 we are at 364 nm SW of Kangaroo Island. Maria and Sacha are documenting the blue tomes at 25 Hz and even southern right whale calls are detected as strong “blobs” of energy near the same 25 Hz frequency levels as the blues. A slightly […]
Day 6 Voyage Report via satellite
Cetacean Jamboree! (Written on Jan 24, 2013) Reporting for my midnight watch I am very interested to hear that Maria has had a “Cetacean Jamboree” detecting all kinds of cetacean sounds including a mysterious call not unlike Sigourney Weavers’ “Aliens”, dolphins, blues, and a noisy container ship knocking everything out for a half an hour. […]
Day 5 Voyage Report via satellite
Grey, Grey Wednesday! (Written Jan23, 2013) Lots of darkness all around, we are 38 00.7 S and 123 07.0 at 265.6 nm SE of Esperance. It’s 4730 m deep, way deep, all over your head basically! Thus far we have heard sperm whales, sighted a beaked whale (and recorded its calls), seen and heard common […]
Day 4 Voyage Report via satellite
Beaked Whales Trilling Good Morning! (Written Jan 22, 2013) Blackness shrouds Whale Song – the sky, again moonless and clouded over covers a matt black seascape. Looking down into our side-wash, tiny phosphorescent ostracods and other microscopic nekton and plankton twinkle. This light, apart from our own navigation lights, theirs is the only lightness around. […]
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