Joanne O'Brien in Podcasts
personJoanne O'Brien is an ocean acoustics expert who confirmed the sounds of sperm whales and seismic activity.
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Today with David McCullagh
How Sperm whalesβ communicate like humans
Well, what you might have heard towards the end of the clip there, we sent that to an ocean acoustics expert, Dr. Joanne O'Brien in Ireland, and she confirmed, yeah, that's sperm whales, but she also confirmed the noise at the end, which we thought was our boat slapping off the water, was actually the sound of seismic surveying 400 kilometres to the south on the Porcupine Bank.