The Whalesong boat March 2001

Juanita was one of the volunteers who helped getting the project started

Discussing last informations

Here we go!

During our first season we used a boat to deploy the Whalesong hydrophone. "Aye aye Cap'n, thar she blows!" It got to be a little too expensive to maintain a boat just for hanging a hydrophone over the side, so in subsequent seasons we have used a buoy system. Photos above are of the original Whalesong boat and first season volunteers.

Dan with buoy No. 1 in 2002 

Dan at the first interview for the "Honolulu Advertiser" on March 15th, 2002

Dan and Markus with receiver in March 2002. At that point we had no idea of a German platform...

Markus with the first Whalesong booth in Germany: Berlin in June 2003

Markus and Andreas Dohms in studio of SWR 1, a radio station in Germany at June 18th, 2003

Kent and Markus changing the battery - a process which had to be done every 2nd week