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The Humpback Whale Research Project, Bermuda was started in 2007 by Andrew Stevenson (pictured left with Somers-3 and Elsa-8). We research and collect visual and acoustics data on the humpbacks as they migrate past Bermuda to broaden our knowledge of these magnificent animals. For the past five years, Andrew has studied the humpbacks' pelagic migratory behaviour. His initial research was conducted between Feb 2007 and Feb 2010 while making the film "Where the Whales Sing". The second phase of research started in March 2010 and will contunue until May 2013.
Marine scientists know a lot about the humpbacks in their feeding and breeding grounds closer to shore, but there is little information on the humpbacks' mid-ocean migratory behaviour. As a mid-ocean platform, Bermuda provides a unique window into the lives of the humpbacks. There are almost no other similar studies and the few that are out there are from coastal sites near to the breeding grounds and may not be typical of pelagic migration.
More details about Andrew and his various projects and adventures are available in Andrew's bio.
Please contact us at 777 7688 if you have any sightings of whales during the winter months up to March.
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"It is because whales are such grand and glowing creatures that their destruction degrades us so. It will confound our descendants. We were the generation that searched Mars for the most tenuous evidence of life but couldn't rouse enough moral outrage to stop the destruction of the grandest manifestations of life here on earth.'
Dr Roger Payne
I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.”.
Dr Sylvia Earle...
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