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Blue whale D calls **audible only with appropriate speakers**

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MBARI_MARS

November 30th, 2016

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Soundscapes > Nature
36.71, -122.187
MARS hydrophone

This blue whale D-call series was recorded through the hydrophone on the MARS cabled observatory on July 18, 2016. MARS is located on Smooth Ridge (36.7125N, 122.1869W), west of Monterey Bay at approximately 900 m depth. See http://www.mbari.org/at-sea/cabled-observatory/ for more information. A subwoofer or good headphone set is required to hear these low-frequency vocalizations.

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Balaenoptera-musculus
blue-whale
California
cetacean-acoustics
D-call
field-recording
hydrophone
marine-mammals
MBARI
Monterey-Bay
nature
ocean-soundscape

Type

Mp3 (.mp3)

Duration

0:45.192

File size

1.7 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bitrate

320 kbps

Channels

Mono

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Sirith

4 years, 3 months ago

Juste magnifique ! Merci :)

absent1010

6 years, 8 months ago

wow! Talk about sub bass :) I'd read about low frequency whale calls but I had not heard anything like this before. Thank you!

MBARI_MARS

7 years, 9 months ago

Hello bojsp. Sure, I'll post the wav format version. Regards.

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bojsp

7 years, 9 months ago

Thnx so much for this precious recording! My whole room and body are shaking when playing this. Would love to listen to it in full quality - would you be willing to upload it as a .wav format?

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deleted_user...

8 years, 6 months ago

thats amazing

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