A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice
hakaimagazine.comVery interesting read. The article linked from it about Erden Eruç is equally fascinating.
> The 62-year-old Wauna resident Erden Eruç (AIR-den AIR-rooch), already the holder of 16 Guinness world records, was on his way to doing just that when he launched his rowboat from Crescent City, California, June 22, 2021. After 239 days and over 7,800 miles alone across the Pacific for the second time, he became the first person to row from North America to Asia when he landed in the Philippines March 24, 2022, securing two more world records.
Wow! There is reflecting from both him and his wife on the preparation and mental effect this has on both of them.
"Gig Harbor resident, Erden Eruç (pronounced 'Air-den Air-rooch') completed the first solo circumnavigation by human power in 5 years and 11 days between 2007 and 2012. What started as a simple idea in 1997, had become a quiet obsession. A tragic accident which claimed the life of Göran Kropp while rock climbing together in September of 2002, finally put him in motion. Life was too short." Man this is a next version
Title made me immediately think of 52 Blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale
> A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice
I have a co-worker like this.
It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.
Not so wild if you consider the fact that we don't live in the sea/ocean. There is a reason why we know more about land animals.
Also because in the sea life is more volumetric. Most sea animals move through the water at least in one stage of their life. Most land animals just move over the ground. Not through the air.
Your point isn't completely invalid, but there are two major counterarguments:
- Most land animals do fly. Most insects fly, and most land animals are insects.
- Almost all (90%+) of animals live in the top 200 meters of the ocean. That's not that much different than the portion of the "air" that includes things that live in trees.
In both cases, it's a pretty thin layer of the total volume that contains almost all of the animals. It is more distributed in water, but not as much as your comment implied.
Yup, Rice's Whale was discovered as recently as 2021 for example. And is not exactly a small animal living in a remote location. USA native
It was discovered in 2021 that they were a separate species. The whales had been observed there since the 1960s.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marine-mammal-prote...
I do love that there's still so much more to learn, especially when it's large animals that have avoided us successfully thus far.
These animals may be much more intelligent than we realize; many species could have avoided extinction if they had avoided contact with the evil and destructive humans.
Yeah especially a bit deeper it's wild & must be many animals we have yet to discover.
Title reminded me of this episode of "The Wild" podcast[1]
> This past summer, I was in Alaska in a little coastal town called Seward - a gorgeous spot on the Kenai Peninsula tucked between the ocean and some giant glacier-covered mountains. I met a guy named Dan Olsen, who records killer whale calls using an underwater hydrophone.
[1] https://www.kuow.org/stories/eavesdropping-on-orcas-love-gri...
what's the name of the Apple series in which the last living whale dies
the name is kujira
Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...
Most probably not. If civilians heard it, you’d expect half a dozen of semi-competent militaries would have done so as well. And some of those militaries have objectives that don’t neatly align or have less than stellar opsec.
Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.
> Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.
But not impossible, and there are a lot of examples of things being built (or destroyed for that matter) in perfect secrecy involving groups larger than 10 people.
Again, there are operators in that space that don’t have any incentive to keep your program secret. And I am not talking about complete transparency.
People retire or fall out, documents get lost, someone slips somewhere. It does not take much for the existence of a project to become public knowledge. It’s the other side of the OPSEC coin: a single mistake and some information gets available.
Still, I am not saying this is impossible, merely improbable. Which, combined with the other factors, makes the story being a secret military project implausible.
Sometimes the best way to hide something is in plain sight.
What would that even be? Sonar would be most likely, but there is very little reason for secrecy there, since all the innovation is in the signal analysis not the signal itself.
Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terrible and lossy as sound in water?
Applying the troll's razor: Maybe it's just large scale trolling, nothing less, nothing more.
Why couldn't there be innovation in the signal?