Online hydrophone livestreams?

For awhile, MBARI was streaming audio of their 900-meter-deep hydrophone off Monterey Bay on YouTube, and I was nerding out so, so hard about it. So, so, so, so hard. Particularly because I am a bred-in-the-bone night owl, and the very early hours of the morning seemed to be when all the mysticetes started vocalizing like crazy. But then they took the feed down… And I waited, and waited, and they never put it back up.

I know of a couple of hydrophones here in the Salish Sea that are streamed live, but they are in comparatively very shallow water and the noise pollution is unbearable for more than a few minutes at a time.

So I’m wondering if anybody on here knows of any other hydrophone livestreams that they’d be willing to share? Considering how little is really understood about the vocalizations/songs of whales in general, and mysticetes in particular, it would seem like an area where ‘citizen science’ could be a really useful tool. Plus it’s just super trippy to listen to :innocent:

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Orcalab in Johnstone Strait in Canada has live webcams and hydrophone feeds:
http://www.orca-live.net/

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Welcome to the forum @rachelandresbeck!

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This is super cool, but it seems like it’s down and/or unavailable.
(hopefully we can drive a little traffic their way, and maybe that’ll bring their hydrophone back online :)

It’s been years since I’ve actually listened. I didn’t realize it was down. :(

Here are some more live hydrophone feeds, based out of the seattle area.
http://live.orcasound.net/orcasound-lab

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And this one often seas orcas. It’s near Lime Kiln which is across the strait from Victoria BC, in the San Juan Islands. I saw orcas there all the time.
http://www.smruconsulting.com/products-tools/lime-kiln-live-hydrophone/

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