Day 2 Common dolphins all around! (Written on Feb 17, 2013) It’s midnight, my feet hit the cabin floor and in five minutes I am alive and wide awake! We are at sea again, I am so happy! “What is the elixir?” I quandary while brushing my teeth… The answer is not far away… Resty […]
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Day 1 Westbound for Fremantle
Day 1 Hooroo to Jervis Bay and Happy Birthday Maria! (Written on Feb 16, 2013) At 0750 we drop the last line at our stern and back out slowly as Curt toots the horn three times, the mariners signal indicating “I am moving astern”. He loves this air-horn, and as I am positioned on the […]
Day 14 Voyage Report – Mission Complete!
Day 14 S-Y-D-E-N-E-Y! (Written on Feb 02, 2013) My early “alarm” clock for my midnight watch was in the form of a bright and breezy (but then apologetic!) phone call from Micah in the west, being three hours behind us! Hmm, 8pm becomes 11pm where we are on the east coast! Spilling into the wheelhouse […]
Day 13 Voyage Report
We have arrived Safe and Sound in JB! (Written on January 31, 2013) I am spared my usual tapping at the door as we travel through the night and will be anchored in Jervis Bay during my watch. The guys decide they’ll cover my watch anchoring during this time, so kindly they let me sleep. […]
Day 12 Voyage Report
Day 12 Last Day of Survey… ohhh… (Written on Jan 30, 2013) The midnight deployment records blues and whistles in 120 metres of water, but when the RF range is poor the systems are shut down and Whale Song is quiet once more… In the deep canyon crossed yesterday, sperm whale foraging calls were […]
Day 11 Voyage Report
Day 11 Bouncy Bass Strait! (Written on Jan 29, 2013) Thoroughly getting into the groove of my midnight watch I have been naturally waking five minutes before Resty’s gentle knock-knock-knock on our door. The soft light of the highly appointed moon fills two port windows of the wheelhouse. Almost immediately upon deployment of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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