Voyage news
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Successful voyage returns from Southern Ocean
Innovative technologies, including drones, shed new light on the distribution of endangered Antarctic blue whales and their food source krill.
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Antarctic blue whales are rare and sparsely distributed across the vast Southern Ocean, so finding them can be a challenge.
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For the first time on an Australian research vessel, giant krill swarms are being recorded in 3D using echosounders in the Southern Ocean.
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Eavesdropping on Antarctic blue whales
The ENRICH voyage is using underwater listening devices originally developed to track submarines to find ‘hotspots’ of Antarctic blue whales.
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Southern Ocean silk-and-plankton sandwich
As the RV Investigator heads south to the ice edge, members of the krill team have been towing an ingenious plankton sampling device.
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The most comprehensive scientific voyage ever undertaken to study the largest creature on Earth and its food source is on its way to the Antarctic ice edge.