Whale Identification Photography
Sometimes you get lucky as with these glass off nights on Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia.
Here Pam is shooting whale identification images of humpback whales from our 6.3 metre rigid inflatable boat. It is our workhorse and has travelled 2,500 NM in search of whales.
RV Whale Song
February 26 2011 and Curt and Micheline Jenner's new research vessel, Whale Song arrives for the first time in its home port of Fremantle, Western Australia. Whale Song's delivery voyage was from Malta, past the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean.
Satellite Tagging Humpbacks
Whale Song off Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia on a research trip to satellite tag and to take biopsy samples during the northern migration of humpbacks.
Ready on The Bow
Researchers wait for the right timing to apply a satellite tracking tag and obtain a biopsy sample.
Tags Away
A successful satellite tracking tag deployment. The silver and orange tube bouncing away is the shield from the tag. In the lower image the tag's antenna can be clearly seen. The smaller orange tube contains the biopsy sample.
The tag is applied high on the dorsal surface as it can only transmit the whale's position when it is out of the water.
Back Again
A tagged whale returns to surface alongside Whale Song.
Whale Identification Photography
Micheline Jenner on the bow of Whale Song.
Sunset on Ningaloo Reef
Humpback Whale Tracks
Source: Satellite tracking of northbound humpback whales off Western Australia, Double, Jenner, et al. May 2012.