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Slow Down, Whale Crossing
Less than 400 right whales remain alive on the planet today and conservationists long have been sounding the alarm of the species’s imminent extinction. Now, a newly-deployed listening network sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots. Merchant ships, a key nemesis to these endangered sea mammals, traverse busy shipping lanes such as Massachusetts Bay and elsewhere along the east coast, often colliding with the animals killing them.
The listening system of thirteen high-tech buoys has been specifically designed in response to the development of a new liquefied natural gas terminal built offshore of Boston. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) mandated the development of the system to prevent collisions between 70 ton right whales and 90,000 ton supply tankers. Ship captains can view a near-real-time graphic that shows the positions of recently recorded whale sounds. The smart buoys were developed by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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