The Song of the Whale left Reykjavik harbour on the sunny evening of August the 4th with the crew consisting of Richard McLanaghan (skipper), Mat Jerram (1st mate), Olly Boisseau (senior scientist) and Milaja Bennett (research assistant), and with our visiting scientists Dr. Marianne Rasmussen and Maria Iversen (University of Iceland research centre in Húsavik)… Continue Reading
We are sailing from Greenland to Iceland now, nearing the end of our three thousand mile voyage from Boston. Over those three weeks we have seen a wide variety of whales – from sperm and pilot whales to bottlenose whales, blue and sei whales and several species of dolphins. But there was one species that… Continue Reading
There was a faint smell of black spruce drifting across the water, on the night before we landed in Newfoundland. I didn’t notice the smell dissipating when we departed a day later, but it must have lasted longer than our view of the coastline. St. John’s disappeared quickly behind us, as we sailed into a… Continue Reading
Song of the Whale left Boston last week with five new team members, a new mainsail, new hydrophone, plenty of fresh food and much anticipation about the upcoming voyage. The passage plan aims to pass the coastlines of Canada and Greenland and onto Iceland, covering historical whaling grounds and potential habitat for the endangered North… Continue Reading
The recently published 2011 Sennheiser Annual Report includes a series of articles exploring infrasonic sound. Oliver Boisseau and the work of the Song of the Whale team are featured in an article titled “Lonesome Singers of the Atlantic”. A short video is also available on the Sennheiser website. Continue Reading