we’ve got a waypoint for the position of
the ship we’ll probably go out of visual
range but we’ll stay in radio contact
and just kind of check in wherever we
see anything or as we pass by landmarks
so you need to have a reference point to
be able to say where you are relative to
it if you’re trying to use landmarks to
navigate something like the mountains or
the rocks and we’re constantly trying to
remember where we are because you’re
literally in a life raft and if anything
went wrong it would be bad
his last time out re managed to place a
video tag on a humpback whale a sixty
six thousand pound beast
but today he’s hunting minke whales and
even in a known feeding ground they’re
harder to spot weighing about 45,000
pounds less than humpbacks much
visibility car
but it’s pretty hard to spot a whale and
the further away than a few hundred
meters the minke whales are a lot more
challenging because there’s they’re
smaller they’re faster and they don’t
surface nearly as high they’re real pain
to work with because they’re difficult
to see and generally you see them once
or twice and then they’re gone the
horizontal visibility is pretty low even
with a minke where they surface so low
and they’re so small you can only see
them from a couple hundred meters but
you can probably hear the blow from you
know two or three times farther so what
am I do is I might shut down for a
little bit you know five minutes and
just kind of have a listen I shut us
down so we’ll do that
my most favorite times in the Antarctic
is when you can remove all of the human
sounds and it’s a silence that you can
kind of feel
it seems kind of primitive you hear ice
crackling you’re here glaciers rumbling
no your seal barking when you can hear
your heartbeat you know that it’s quiet
keep your eyes and ears open if you hear
a little blue that’s I make you well
the ship we’ll probably go out of visual
range but we’ll stay in radio contact
and just kind of check in wherever we
see anything or as we pass by landmarks
so you need to have a reference point to
be able to say where you are relative to
it if you’re trying to use landmarks to
navigate something like the mountains or
the rocks and we’re constantly trying to
remember where we are because you’re
literally in a life raft and if anything
went wrong it would be bad
his last time out re managed to place a
video tag on a humpback whale a sixty
six thousand pound beast
but today he’s hunting minke whales and
even in a known feeding ground they’re
harder to spot weighing about 45,000
pounds less than humpbacks much
visibility car
but it’s pretty hard to spot a whale and
the further away than a few hundred
meters the minke whales are a lot more
challenging because there’s they’re
smaller they’re faster and they don’t
surface nearly as high they’re real pain
to work with because they’re difficult
to see and generally you see them once
or twice and then they’re gone the
horizontal visibility is pretty low even
with a minke where they surface so low
and they’re so small you can only see
them from a couple hundred meters but
you can probably hear the blow from you
know two or three times farther so what
am I do is I might shut down for a
little bit you know five minutes and
just kind of have a listen I shut us
down so we’ll do that
my most favorite times in the Antarctic
is when you can remove all of the human
sounds and it’s a silence that you can
kind of feel
it seems kind of primitive you hear ice
crackling you’re here glaciers rumbling
no your seal barking when you can hear
your heartbeat you know that it’s quiet
keep your eyes and ears open if you hear
a little blue that’s I make you well
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