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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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JOHN CALAMBOKIDIS: (ON RADIO)
...I have that position.
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Uh, we have
a good deployment.
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Thirty-four degrees. 11.92.
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One-twenty degrees. 35.15.
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JOHN HILDEBRAND: Okay.
The whale we're tracking down
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is to the east of us.
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We're gonna move two miles
in that direction
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and we'll probably
put in a buoy over there.
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JOSHUA ZEMAN: In 1992,
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a top secret program
of the US Navy
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discovered a mysterious
sound in the Pacific
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at a frequency
of 52 hertz.
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A marine biologist named
Dr. William Watkins
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surmised this sound
was coming
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from a solitary whale,
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broadcasting at a frequency
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that no other whale
could understand.
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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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It's been said that
this whale has spent
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its entire life swimming
through the oceans,
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calling out and never once
receiving a response.
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No one has heard
from this whale
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since the Navy
stopped listening
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over ten years ago.
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No one has ever
seen this whale.
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No one knows if he's the
first of his kind or the last.
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While many have
nicknamed this creature
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the Loneliest Whale
in the World...
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(WHALE SPOUTS)
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...there are those
that call him 52.
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(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
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ZEMAN: So it all started
with this article
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about 52,
this lonely whale.
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This whale with
this mysterious call
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that just
couldn't communicate.
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It couldn't be heard.
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And I remember
having this reaction.
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You know,
the hairs on my arm just stood up.
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For some reason, this story,
it just spoke to me.
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So I went online to search
for more information,
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and as it turns out,
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it wasn't just me.
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WOMAN 1: A really sad story
from the animal kingdom.
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MAN 1: Legend has it
that 52 has been
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roaming the ocean
for decades
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entirely alone.
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MAN 2: 52 Hertz
has been nicknamed...
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WOMAN 2: The Loneliest
Whale in the World.
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WOMAN 3: It was on
a different migratory path
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from other whales.
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WOMAN 4: How do we
know the whale is a he?
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MAN 3:
Only the males sing.
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WOMAN 5: Is it a higher
or lower frequency?
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MAN 4: Higher.
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MAN 5: What is it
about this whale
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that has really moved
so many people?
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(WOMAN 6 SPEAKING SPANISH)
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MAN 6: It's artists,
it's filmmakers,
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it's scientists.
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What do you think it says
about us as people?
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(MAN 7 SPEAKS KOREAN)
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WOMAN 7: His isolation from
the incredibly social world
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of his fellow whales
speaks to so many right now.
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MAN 8: ...the loneliest
creature on Earth.
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(WOMAN 8 SPEAKS SPANISH)
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WOMAN 9: Absolutely,
how could it not be lonely?
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ZEMAN: 52 had become
this global phenomenon.
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This whale who embodied
the fascination
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we all have
for these gentle giants.
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You never forget your
first time seeing a whale.
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For me, I was a kid
working on a sailing ship.
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And the moment
I saw this whale
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leap out of the water,
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I felt like I was
in the presence
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of something
greater than myself.
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But this
mysterious fascination
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has always been there.
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We've always sought
the great whale,
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whether to slaughter it,
or now to save it.
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From Jonah,
who found redemption
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in the belly of a whale,
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to Captain Ahab, who found
the ultimate adversary
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in his hunt for a whale.
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These epic stories
are ingrained in our culture,
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in our consciousness.
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But what about this new
story of the lonely whale?
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Why did so many connect
with this one creature?
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Was it just this notion
of loneliness?
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Hmm... I don't know.
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All we know is
what he sounds like
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and where he's
possibly going.
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ZEMAN: And is that
his signature
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- over there on the wall?
- That's his signature.
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Wow.
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When we first detected 52
was back in '89.
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He is just like
a regular blue or fin whale,
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but the frequency he was,
you know,
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vocalizing at was
at the 52 hertz level,
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not, you know,
down around 20 hertz.
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(WHALE CALL PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)
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Now, we'd seen that signal
a couple times
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and we dismissed it
as being another source.
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ZEMAN: So what did
you think it was
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before you realized
it was a whale?
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That I can't tell you.
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ZEMAN: So,
something classified?
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Something mechanical,
that's it.
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(AIRCRAFT TAKES OFF)
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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
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DAVID ROTHENBERG:
It was the beginnings
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of the Cold War
in the 1950s.
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The American Navy
was doing everything possible
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to be one step ahead
of the Russians.
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And they decided they wanted
to listen underwater
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for what those Russian
submarines were up to.
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So we developed
this secret array
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of underwater microphones
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to listen to all the
sounds in the ocean.
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(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK)
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GEORGE: It was called
Sound Surveillance System.
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"SOSUS."
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This was a 24-hour job,
365 days of the year.
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There is always
someone watching.
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ROTHENBERG: And they heard
all kinds of sounds.
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(CLICKING)
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It turned out most of them
came from whales.
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(WHALE VOCALIZING)
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CHRISTOPHER W. CLARK:
In those early days,
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we needed to understand
the difference
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between the sound
of a submarine
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and the voiceprint
of a whale.
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Most of the knowledge we have
about "whale song"
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is focused on
humpback whales.
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(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
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But then we have
blue whales and fin whales.
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They're infrasonic,
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below the auditory threshold
of human beings.
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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)
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ROTHENBERG: Blue whales sing
a very soft simple melody,
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but all around 100 hertz.
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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)
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Just a few low phrases, like,
"Mmm. Mmm." That's it.
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No more variety
or structure than that.
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And here is the sound
of the fin whale.
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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)
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One sound, "Mmm,"
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then several minutes later,
again, "Mmm,"
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and exactly the same amount
of time later, "Mmm."
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It's an exact,
regular rhythm.
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We have no idea how such
a whale could be so regular.
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(LOW-PITCHED RHYTHMIC
WHALE CALL PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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CLARK: They sound
like a submarine.
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(LOW-PITCHED WHALE CALL
CONTINUES PLAYING)
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So this is where people
like Bill Watkins
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were asked by the Navy
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to catalogue what it is
we're listening to.
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DR. WILLIAM WATKINS: The
Navy would have a question
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about what they were hearing,
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what they were calling noise.
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And I was asked
to look at it.
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And I think that it's the same
rationale that I have today,
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is that if you're
going to be working
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with underwater sound
in the ocean,
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well, you oughta know
what's there.
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GEORGE: It was Bill Watkins
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who looked at
this one signature,
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and he says,
"This looks biologic."
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That's how we found it.
The 52 Hertz.
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So, we were able
to track him for 12 years.
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ZEMAN: And how did the rest
of the community react to 52?
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The rest
of the community, uh...
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There's a lot of
skepticism in it.
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Some people discredit it
as not being a whale.
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You know, why is he vocalizing
at this frequency
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and there's not another one
out there?
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A lot of skepticism in that
as to what this was.
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But, I think, to Bill Watkins,
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it was something unknown,
something to explore.
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He passed away in 2004.
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So, we went forth
and published a paper on it.
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We have never seen another
signature like that.
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And, you know,
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going through it,
I've looked all the time
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just seeing if there's
another one, at all.
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To see if, uh, you know...
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Just to see
if he's not the only one.
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And never seen
another one like it.
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ZEMAN: Did you guys ever
think about going out
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to actually try
and visually locate him?
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We'll say,
I thought about it,
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but I know Bill didn't,
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because he knew that, uh,
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it was a needle
in a haystack.
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For me, it was kind of,
like, a dream
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to go out there
and search for him,
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but also,
reality hitting in,
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knowing that the odds
of that are very slim.
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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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GEORGE: We haven't
looked for him since 2003.
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ZEMAN: And what if somebody
went and looked for him now?
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Oh, my God,
that would be...
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Wow, (CHUCKLES) I mean,
couldn't even explain it,
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how great that would be.
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We have no idea what it is,
because we haven't seen it.
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And once you do that,
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you could solve
the mystery of the 52.
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(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
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ZEMAN: Bill Watkins
helped solve
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some of the ocean's
greatest mysteries.
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He was a man who knew
that what we can hear
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is sometimes more powerful
than what we can see.
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Yet, tragically, he left
this one work unfinished.
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That of 52.
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This whale that we knew
so little about.
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And now 11 years later,
the myth has taken over.
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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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You know, we call him "the
loneliest whale in the world,"
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but was it really true?
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We invented this legend,
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because we didn't
have the truth.
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But what if we could
set the record straight?
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What if we can discover
whether this whale
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was really an anomaly,
or even a new species?
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No one has ever seen 52,
but what if we could?
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What if this was a mystery
we could solve?
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It's curiosity.
It's adventure.
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And it's a crazy idea.
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But this was a chance
to do something epic.
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To find one whale
in an entire ocean.
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To find 52.
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(PHONE LINE RINGING)
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Hey, Bruce,
my name is Josh Zeman.
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I'm a filmmaker
and I wanted to talk to you
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about mounting an expedition
to find the 52 Hertz Whale.
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(BRUCE SPEAKING)
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(BRUCE LAUGHING)
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There's 3,600 square miles
in this square.
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Three thousand miles
within one of these squares?
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Yeah.
And the animals are moving
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maybe 125 miles a day.
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Yeah. I mean,
they're going somewhere.
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(LAUGHS)
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I mean, Daniel and I
are used to looking
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at the things
that are stereotypical.
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We expected
a typical baleen whale
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to be going south
for the winter,
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and instead, if we look at all
the Joe George information,
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it went up into
the Gulf of Alaska.
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ZEMAN: What does an expedition
like this look like,
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in terms of details?
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We need to justify
the science, time, and money
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being spent on
this kind of a mission.
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That's why we need
to have more assurance
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that 52 Hertz is not only
still on schedule...
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ZEMAN: Mm-hmm.
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...but just that
it even lives.
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If we don't have that,
we're sort of shooting in the dark.
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And I wouldn't say
we have much of a chance.
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Maybe even as recently
as this year,
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the animal's passed away.
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ZEMAN:
While these large whales
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live on average
60 to 70 years,
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the only way to prove
52 is still alive
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is to hear him calling out,
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which means gaining access to
the classified SOSUS system.
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(LINE RINGING)
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Yet, after a year of
back and forth with the Navy,
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they refused to participate...
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(NAVAL OFFICER SPEAKING)
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ZEMAN: ...leading us
to Bob Dziak,
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a government scientist
who uses the SOSUS
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to study underwater volcanoes.
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(LOUD RUMBLING)
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Bob and his team
have agreed to help.
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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
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DZIAK: It's like you're
in the mouth of the whale.
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ASSISTANT: Yes.
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ZEMAN:
Doesn't really sound like
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we would think
a whale calls, right?
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Whale calls
oftentimes are sped up
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because they're below
our threshold of hearing.
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DR. ANA SIROVIC:
Do you want to hear
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this one sped up
ten times?
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- SARA HEIMLICH: Yeah.
- SIROVIC: Okay.
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(HIGHER-PITCHED
RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL PLAYING)
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- That's ten times.
- ZEMAN: Wow.
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DZIAK: If that isn't
a call for mama,
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I don't know what is.
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(WHALE CALL CONTINUES
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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HEIMLICH: This is from 1993.
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- ZEMAN: That is 52 right there?
- HEIMLICH: Yeah.
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ZEMAN: It's so difficult
to actually figure that out.
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HEIMLICH:
That's the challenge.
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- ZEMAN: Yeah.
- HEIMLICH: Right there.
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There's sort of an art
to listening to sound
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in the sea and being able
to pick it apart.
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Mechanical noise seems
to be just really consistent
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and very, uh,
what we call stereotypical.
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And so, biological sound,
sort of,
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has an unevenness
to it, in a way.
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But if there is a lot
of noise going around,
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it can be hard to pull out.
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- WOMAN: Mm-hmm.
- MAN: Yes.
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HEIMLICH: So, one of the
issues is that this part here
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looks to us like what a
52 hertz whale call could be,
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but we're not
getting clean data.
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There's other whale calls
going on,
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and so, it's hard to find
the 52 Hertz Whale
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in data that has lots of
other things going on in it.
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It will give me a time when it
thinks it's actually found...
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- ZEMAN: False positives? Yeah.
- False positives.
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And then
I actually have to go
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and look at
each false positive.
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ZEMAN: How many
false positives?
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Uh, on one phone,
I got 67,000 hits.
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ZEMAN: I'll be honest,
I was not going to go
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trying to do the film until
I could prove 100 percent
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- that 52 is still alive.
- Right.
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- 'Cause it's been ten years...
- Right.
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ZEMAN: ...since you last
listened to him.
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Who knows what
can happen in ten years.
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So what's your gut tell you?
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Uh...
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I don't think
we're gonna find it
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in contemporary data,
to be honest.
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What does that mean?
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I'm not sure that that means
that it's not there.
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I think it's...
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I think you need to go
out and look for it.
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If that's what
you really wanna do.
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(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
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ROTHENBERG: It's just one of those
things that's too hard to figure out.
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Till now, no one's bothered
to delve deeper
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into the mystery
of the 52 Hertz Whale.
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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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The mere fact that a mystery
like this can still be around
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just shows how wild and crazy
mysterious nature still is.
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We're still coming up
with things we can't explain.
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CLARK: The ocean is the last
great universe of exploration.
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It is the origin of life.
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How do we explore the ocean?
How do we understand it?
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CHRISTINA CONNETT:
There's that thrill.
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The thrill of discovery.
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The thrill of
the exploration itself.
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The thrill of the journey.
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To be a true explorer,
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you have to be willing
to put yourself at risk.
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And that has to be thrilling,
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or you're not going
to succeed with that.
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ROTHENBERG: Almost every
project involving whales
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has a little bit of
this aspect of Moby Dick.
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This, kind of,
relentless obsession
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that's going to go nowhere,
towards disaster.
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Even contemplating whales
is to dare to,
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you know, to reach
toward greatness.
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To think about something
far more vast
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than humans could ever be.
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We should be going after
all great mysteries like this.
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(RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
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ZEMAN: We're all chasing
something.
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We all have
our own white whale.
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And mine was 52.
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(WHALE CALL CONTINUES PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)
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This whale who refused
to stop calling,
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who refused to stop
trying to connect.
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I guess that's why
I couldn't let it go.
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Not when there was still some
chance that he was out there.
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So I would keep listening,
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for however long it took.
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(PHONE LINE RINGING)
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HILDEBRAND: Hello?
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ZEMAN: Hey, John,
this is Josh Zeman.
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You left me
a message about
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the 52 Hertz Whale
documentary.
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HILDEBRAND: Yeah,
thanks for calling me back.
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So, we have a series
of recording sites
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that are off
the West Coast.
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Pretty coastal in close
to Southern California.
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And so, you know,
having heard
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about the 52 Hertz Whale
for a long time,
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I was kind of interested
in going through
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some of our recordings
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and seeing
if we could locate
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- the 52 Hertz Whale.
- Mm-hmm.
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Well, so I just
wanted to let you know
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that we found it.
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Wait, wait, wait,
wait, when was this?
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This is all recent.
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The last
couple years or so.
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In the Gulf of Alaska?
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No, we found it
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along the coast
here in California.
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So, it's...
So, it's still alive?
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Yup.
It's out there.
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(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
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(SQUAWKING)
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ZEMAN: After more
than four years
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of planning and preparation,
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we launched our expedition in
search of the 52 Hertz Whale.
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00:23:26,503 --> 00:23:28,005
While we only
had enough support
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for a seven-day mission,
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00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,609
we still had some of the best
scientists in the world
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to help us.
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HILDEBRAND:
My name is John Hildebrand.
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I'm a professor at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
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at University of California,
San Diego.
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00:23:40,718 --> 00:23:42,921
I'm gonna be leading
the acoustics effort
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on our search
for the 52 Hertz Whale.
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ZEMAN:
What's in the box?
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- HILDEBRAND: Sonobuoys.
- ZEMAN: Wow, they're heavy.
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Yeah, the box
is about 1,000 pounds.
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So, these will
basically listen
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for the 52 hertz signal
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and kind of tell you where
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the direction of that...
where that is?
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00:24:01,638 --> 00:24:02,940
- Well, if you have two of 'em.
- Yeah.
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00:24:02,973 --> 00:24:04,741
From this one,
it has this direction
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00:24:04,775 --> 00:24:05,876
and this one
has this direction,
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00:24:05,910 --> 00:24:08,146
you can cross the bearings
and you know where it is.
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00:24:08,179 --> 00:24:09,314
- Triangulate instantly.
- Right.
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ZEMAN: And they used to use
these to look for submarines,
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and now we're using it
to find a whale.
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00:24:14,618 --> 00:24:16,721
Yes. They've been retired
from the Navy,
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00:24:16,753 --> 00:24:19,022
and now we're using them
for working on whales.
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00:24:19,056 --> 00:24:20,725
So it's kind of a nice gift.
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00:24:23,594 --> 00:24:25,630
We want to find it,
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one whale,
but it's a big ocean,
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00:24:28,833 --> 00:24:32,237
so if we're gonna find it,
we need help.
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00:24:32,269 --> 00:24:34,605
- Hello.
- Hello.
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- Hey, Ana.
- Hi.
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JOHN CALAMBOKIDIS: I'm John Calambokidis.
I'm a research biologist
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and I've been
studying blue whales
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for about 35 years.
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00:24:42,646 --> 00:24:43,780
Here we are.
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CALAMBOKIDIS:
I kind of recognized
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it was a huge challenge
to do this.
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00:24:48,251 --> 00:24:50,855
I mean, I go out and try
to find blue whales
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and there are 2,000 of 'em
on the West Coast,
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and sometimes
that's a challenge.
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Now we're talking about
finding maybe one.
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But any scientist
would be captivated
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by the opportunity
to solve that mystery.
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00:25:06,903 --> 00:25:10,107
So, John Hildebrand called me
six months ago and he said,
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00:25:10,141 --> 00:25:11,576
"I can't think of anyone
better than you
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00:25:11,608 --> 00:25:12,644
"that could do this.
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00:25:12,676 --> 00:25:14,044
"I could do the acoustics,
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00:25:14,077 --> 00:25:15,946
"you got all
the boat experience.
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00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:18,682
"We could do this together
and maybe learn a few things."
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00:25:18,715 --> 00:25:20,083
- ...around this area.
- Yeah.
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And that's when I said,
"I'm in."
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HILDEBRAND: It's more
than just curiosity.
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People assume that we know
more than we actually do.
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00:25:36,666 --> 00:25:38,669
There's the bit we can see,
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00:25:38,702 --> 00:25:41,306
whatever's happening
on the surface.
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00:25:41,338 --> 00:25:45,109
But then there's the 95
percent that we can't see.
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There's just so much
we don't know.
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In 2004, we came right
out here, off San Miguel,
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and we encountered a big
group of blue and fin whales,
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00:26:01,258 --> 00:26:03,227
and in amongst them,
paired with a blue whale,
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00:26:03,259 --> 00:26:06,931
was this whale that looked
in between the two.
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00:26:06,963 --> 00:26:08,198
So we got a skin sample,
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00:26:08,231 --> 00:26:10,268
we had that
genetically analyzed.
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Fifty-fifty hybrid between
blue and fin whales.
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Could that have been
the 52 Hertz Whale?
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00:26:14,771 --> 00:26:17,808
It could have been.
It could have been that whale.
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00:26:19,143 --> 00:26:19,977
Wow. That's...
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00:26:20,010 --> 00:26:22,646
And at that time,
we weren't linking
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any of that in any way.
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00:26:30,253 --> 00:26:31,990
MAN: Yeah, that'd be awesome.
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00:26:34,290 --> 00:26:36,126
(STATIC HISSING)
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00:26:42,666 --> 00:26:43,867
CAPTAIN DAVEY: So,
talk to me about the back.
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If it looks good,
I'll keep going.
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00:26:44,935 --> 00:26:46,370
- MAN: You're good, yeah.
- All right, here we go.
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00:26:46,403 --> 00:26:48,073
All right, guys, coming down.
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00:26:49,807 --> 00:26:51,709
ZEMAN: That crane's
coin operated?
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00:26:51,741 --> 00:26:53,877
It is coin operated.
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00:27:09,426 --> 00:27:11,096
It has begun.
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00:27:29,747 --> 00:27:34,986
So we had,
just purely out of curiosity,
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00:27:35,019 --> 00:27:37,121
we assigned an intern
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00:27:37,153 --> 00:27:41,025
to look for what we're going
to refer to as Watkins' whale.
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00:27:41,057 --> 00:27:42,460
And there are four sites
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00:27:42,492 --> 00:27:45,429
where she can pick out
this unusual call.
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At Hoke Seamount,
which is far offshore,
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which is where Watkins
described it before.
487
00:27:50,734 --> 00:27:52,102
- ZEMAN: Mm-hmm.
- HILDEBRAND: But she found it
488
00:27:52,135 --> 00:27:53,904
at Point Conception,
489
00:27:53,938 --> 00:27:56,040
she found it at Palos Verdes,
490
00:27:56,073 --> 00:27:57,341
and she found it
off of La Jolla.
491
00:27:57,374 --> 00:28:00,778
So, these are
relatively coastal.
492
00:28:00,810 --> 00:28:01,846
ZEMAN: But how come
we wouldn't
493
00:28:01,878 --> 00:28:03,980
have known this before?
494
00:28:04,013 --> 00:28:06,250
Well, it's just that
there's a new dimension,
495
00:28:06,282 --> 00:28:08,251
beyond what Bill knew,
496
00:28:08,285 --> 00:28:12,490
that the whale actually does
come in coastally. Right?
497
00:28:12,522 --> 00:28:16,394
And here we are
in the Santa Barbara Channel,
498
00:28:16,426 --> 00:28:17,928
and the whale is there.
499
00:28:19,028 --> 00:28:21,432
We find, pretty consistently,
500
00:28:21,464 --> 00:28:24,301
both at site C and site B,
501
00:28:24,335 --> 00:28:27,904
that there are these calls
in October.
502
00:28:27,938 --> 00:28:28,772
ZEMAN: So, if we
have any chance
503
00:28:28,806 --> 00:28:31,142
of finding this animal,
it's right now?
504
00:28:31,174 --> 00:28:34,278
Yep, we're in the right time
and the right place.
505
00:28:35,246 --> 00:28:36,281
Right.
506
00:28:38,883 --> 00:28:40,250
ZEMAN: So, where is it?
507
00:28:40,284 --> 00:28:41,886
(BOTH LAUGH)
508
00:28:41,919 --> 00:28:43,788
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
509
00:28:48,526 --> 00:28:51,929
ZEMAN: While 52 may be alone,
according to our scientists,
510
00:28:51,961 --> 00:28:55,900
he wasn't as isolated
as the legend suggested.
511
00:28:57,167 --> 00:28:59,336
Chances are he was following
other whales
512
00:28:59,369 --> 00:29:01,838
migrating up and down
the West Coast.
513
00:29:01,872 --> 00:29:04,008
And stopping
along Point Conception
514
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,876
to forage for food.
515
00:29:07,211 --> 00:29:10,014
And it wasn't that
other whales couldn't hear 52,
516
00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:14,786
they just couldn't understand
what he was saying,
517
00:29:14,818 --> 00:29:17,320
leaving this whale
the perennial outsider.
518
00:29:17,354 --> 00:29:18,521
(LOW-PITCHED WHALE CALL)
519
00:29:18,555 --> 00:29:22,026
Yet, it was also
the uniqueness of 52's call
520
00:29:22,058 --> 00:29:24,961
that just may lead us
right to him.
521
00:29:24,994 --> 00:29:26,362
(WHALE SPOUTS)
522
00:29:26,396 --> 00:29:30,367
HILDEBRAND: So, if you want
to find the 52 Hertz Whale,
523
00:29:30,401 --> 00:29:32,303
there are two parts to this.
524
00:29:32,336 --> 00:29:35,839
First, we have
a bioacoustic team,
525
00:29:35,873 --> 00:29:40,010
real-time listening
using the sonobuoys.
526
00:29:40,044 --> 00:29:43,247
So when we hear
the 52 hertz sound,
527
00:29:43,279 --> 00:29:45,883
we can say, "This is the spot
where that sound came from.
528
00:29:45,915 --> 00:29:48,552
"Let's go over
and investigate."
529
00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:50,555
Then we're going to have
to have a small boat
530
00:29:50,587 --> 00:29:53,957
that approaches the animal.
That's John C.
531
00:29:53,990 --> 00:29:55,026
(CAMERA CLICKING)
532
00:29:55,058 --> 00:29:56,027
He'll take their picture,
533
00:29:56,059 --> 00:29:59,396
get a skin sample,
attach a tag.
534
00:30:00,396 --> 00:30:02,399
So, that's the plan.
535
00:30:03,634 --> 00:30:05,903
Bridge, do we have
a go-ahead to deploy?
536
00:30:05,935 --> 00:30:08,272
(CAPTAIN DAVEY SPEAKING)
537
00:30:10,607 --> 00:30:14,110
SIROVIC: Kind of, uh,
northeasterly course.
538
00:30:14,144 --> 00:30:15,480
(CAPTAIN DAVEY SPEAKING)
539
00:30:21,417 --> 00:30:22,452
(VESSELS CLANKING)
540
00:30:27,156 --> 00:30:28,391
HILDEBRAND: Okay,
I'm going to go deep.
541
00:30:28,424 --> 00:30:29,527
SIROVIC: Roger that.
542
00:30:31,261 --> 00:30:32,996
(BEEPING)
543
00:30:33,029 --> 00:30:34,199
HILDEBRAND:
You ready for this?
544
00:30:42,972 --> 00:30:45,375
They say, uh, you know
you're doing oceanography
545
00:30:45,409 --> 00:30:47,211
when what you have
is too heavy to lift,
546
00:30:47,243 --> 00:30:49,012
and too expensive to lose,
547
00:30:49,046 --> 00:30:51,115
and then you throw it
in the ocean anyways.
548
00:31:22,211 --> 00:31:23,448
(HILDEBRAND SPEAKING)
549
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,238
(PLAYING NOTES)
550
00:31:48,571 --> 00:31:50,574
(MUFFLED CLARINET PLAYING)
551
00:31:57,347 --> 00:32:00,518
(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL)
552
00:32:02,152 --> 00:32:04,355
(WHALE VOCALIZING
IN HIGH PITCH)
553
00:32:04,387 --> 00:32:06,456
ROTHENBERG: I first heard
about the 52 Hertz Whale
554
00:32:06,490 --> 00:32:08,558
in an article
in The New York Times.
555
00:32:08,592 --> 00:32:10,528
The idea that
there's a species of whale
556
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,097
making a sound that no one
has ever heard before.
557
00:32:14,131 --> 00:32:16,033
It's an amazing tale
of craziness.
558
00:32:16,066 --> 00:32:18,269
(CLARINET MELODY)
559
00:32:20,203 --> 00:32:24,474
(WHALE VOCALIZING)
560
00:32:24,508 --> 00:32:26,576
I've traveled around the world
making music,
561
00:32:26,609 --> 00:32:28,645
trying to jam together
with whales.
562
00:32:28,679 --> 00:32:30,381
'Cause I really believe
you can use music
563
00:32:30,413 --> 00:32:32,249
to get in touch
with other species,
564
00:32:32,281 --> 00:32:35,052
to communicate in a way
where language fails.
565
00:32:36,319 --> 00:32:39,623
(CLARINET AND WHALE'S SOUNDS
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
566
00:32:39,655 --> 00:32:42,159
There he really
seems to respond to me,
567
00:32:43,594 --> 00:32:45,696
and now he almost
matches my note.
568
00:32:45,729 --> 00:32:48,532
(CLARINET AND WHALE'S SOUNDS
CONTINUE PLAYING)
569
00:32:48,565 --> 00:32:50,234
Right there.
570
00:32:51,402 --> 00:32:53,269
To play along with whale song,
571
00:32:53,303 --> 00:32:55,639
the sense that humans
really can touch
572
00:32:55,672 --> 00:32:59,677
upon something very mysterious
that we barely understand.
573
00:32:59,710 --> 00:33:02,046
We're in awe
of what happens in the sea.
574
00:33:04,248 --> 00:33:07,986
The idea that there's
a mystery noise underwater.
575
00:33:08,684 --> 00:33:10,788
52 hertz. It's a sound
576
00:33:10,820 --> 00:33:12,622
that's not like anything else
we know.
577
00:33:13,757 --> 00:33:15,393
It's amazing and fascinating
578
00:33:15,425 --> 00:33:16,593
to think that
even in this day,
579
00:33:16,626 --> 00:33:18,361
we're listening
all over the ocean,
580
00:33:18,394 --> 00:33:20,764
we're still hearing things
that we cannot explain.
581
00:33:23,534 --> 00:33:26,170
(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
582
00:33:26,202 --> 00:33:27,538
DR. ROGER PAYNE:
When you look at the sea,
583
00:33:27,570 --> 00:33:30,040
you're looking
at a vast mystery.
584
00:33:30,074 --> 00:33:32,276
(WHALE CALL CONTINUES PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)
585
00:33:34,444 --> 00:33:37,548
What we have to learn to do
is to listen.
586
00:33:40,851 --> 00:33:45,189
Sound in the ocean
travels huge distances.
587
00:33:45,221 --> 00:33:47,590
It is propagated much better
588
00:33:47,624 --> 00:33:50,594
through water
than through air.
589
00:33:50,626 --> 00:33:52,596
(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
590
00:33:52,628 --> 00:33:55,398
The sounds
of fin and blue whales
591
00:33:55,432 --> 00:33:58,336
could travel
about 13,000 miles.
592
00:34:00,336 --> 00:34:02,440
In fact,
if you were listening,
593
00:34:02,472 --> 00:34:06,143
and you had a proper ear,
as whales do,
594
00:34:06,175 --> 00:34:07,811
you would be able
to hear things
595
00:34:07,845 --> 00:34:10,347
that are completely
across oceans.
596
00:34:11,614 --> 00:34:12,783
CLARK: Water is dense,
597
00:34:14,384 --> 00:34:17,288
so sound travels
almost five times faster.
598
00:34:19,188 --> 00:34:22,559
And the lower
the pitch of your voice,
599
00:34:22,592 --> 00:34:24,728
the more efficiently
it travels.
600
00:34:26,530 --> 00:34:27,598
Think of this,
601
00:34:29,565 --> 00:34:32,869
the song of a whale,
the wavelength of that song,
602
00:34:32,902 --> 00:34:36,406
stretches one football field.
603
00:34:38,775 --> 00:34:42,613
A note, by the time
it's finished,
604
00:34:42,646 --> 00:34:45,149
has traveled 30 miles,
605
00:34:46,416 --> 00:34:48,486
so everything is expanded.
606
00:34:49,786 --> 00:34:52,523
You have to take your mind
and just stretch it.
607
00:34:55,192 --> 00:34:57,862
PAYNE: The whole ocean
is illuminated
608
00:34:57,894 --> 00:34:59,697
by the sounds of the whale,
609
00:35:00,898 --> 00:35:03,467
shining its flashlight around,
610
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,170
figuring out
what's all around it.
611
00:35:07,204 --> 00:35:10,307
It just happens to be sound,
not light, that it's using.
612
00:35:15,579 --> 00:35:18,382
(WHALES CALLING)
613
00:35:21,251 --> 00:35:23,754
CLARK: This is
a long-range social network.
614
00:35:25,822 --> 00:35:28,226
Humpback whales, for example,
615
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:31,362
they have notes,
they have phrases,
616
00:35:31,394 --> 00:35:33,431
they have themes,
they have songs,
617
00:35:34,664 --> 00:35:36,433
like a musical composition.
618
00:35:37,833 --> 00:35:40,837
(WHALE CALLING RHYTHMICALLY)
619
00:35:45,409 --> 00:35:46,744
PAYNE: They're beautiful,
620
00:35:47,978 --> 00:35:51,715
but it turns out
that these whales,
621
00:35:51,748 --> 00:35:53,717
after about 10 minutes,
622
00:35:54,617 --> 00:35:56,853
start repeating themselves.
623
00:35:58,922 --> 00:36:01,791
(RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL
CONTINUES)
624
00:36:04,695 --> 00:36:06,830
The first thought
you have, of course, is,
625
00:36:06,862 --> 00:36:08,331
"Oh, my gosh,
what do they mean?"
626
00:36:08,364 --> 00:36:09,567
That's what
you want to know.
627
00:36:11,534 --> 00:36:14,370
CLARK: They have dialects.
628
00:36:14,403 --> 00:36:19,275
A social mechanism
for identifying who they are.
629
00:36:19,309 --> 00:36:21,711
(WHALES CALLING)
630
00:36:23,246 --> 00:36:25,882
When you watch and you listen
to these animals
631
00:36:25,916 --> 00:36:28,385
communicating
or moving as a herd
632
00:36:28,418 --> 00:36:32,256
over hundreds of...
thousands of square miles.
633
00:36:32,289 --> 00:36:35,326
They move often
in a very coordinated fashion.
634
00:36:36,693 --> 00:36:39,664
All mediated
through their voices.
635
00:36:40,931 --> 00:36:42,532
These animals are in sync
636
00:36:42,565 --> 00:36:44,768
with huge areas
of time and space.
637
00:36:45,969 --> 00:36:48,672
We are just scratching
the surface
638
00:36:48,704 --> 00:36:52,675
in terms of the complexity of
their communications system.
639
00:36:52,708 --> 00:36:55,478
(LOW-PITCHED
RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL)
640
00:36:57,481 --> 00:36:59,016
So you can imagine.
641
00:36:59,048 --> 00:37:03,519
Here's this whale,
it makes a very strange sound
642
00:37:03,552 --> 00:37:05,922
and if there's nothing
out there...
643
00:37:05,956 --> 00:37:07,891
I mean, blue whales
are not going to respond
644
00:37:07,923 --> 00:37:08,925
to this 52 hertz sound,
645
00:37:08,958 --> 00:37:11,527
and fin whales
aren't going to respond,
646
00:37:11,561 --> 00:37:13,431
so who does respond?
647
00:37:15,731 --> 00:37:17,735
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
648
00:37:20,036 --> 00:37:21,804
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
649
00:37:21,838 --> 00:37:23,673
MAN: ...first deployment.
WOMAN: Roger that.
650
00:37:23,706 --> 00:37:25,375
WOMAN 2: We'll give you
some feedback in a second.
651
00:37:27,677 --> 00:37:28,679
HILDEBRAND: So, we're looking
652
00:37:28,713 --> 00:37:30,715
for an animal
that's really rare.
653
00:37:31,815 --> 00:37:33,784
And we think
that the 52 Hertz,
654
00:37:34,818 --> 00:37:36,420
it's a lot like a blue whale.
655
00:37:36,452 --> 00:37:37,487
It's probably
not a blue whale,
656
00:37:37,521 --> 00:37:38,956
but it's a lot like
a blue whale,
657
00:37:38,989 --> 00:37:41,425
so if we go out and find
concentrations of blue whales,
658
00:37:41,458 --> 00:37:42,927
that's a pretty good place
to start.
659
00:37:48,764 --> 00:37:50,366
CALAMBOKIDIS: It's been
kind of a question
660
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,403
kicking around
among whale researchers
661
00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:54,805
ever since first described
by Bill Watkins.
662
00:37:56,373 --> 00:37:58,476
Was this some
new type of whale?
663
00:37:59,742 --> 00:38:01,077
We didn't really know.
664
00:38:02,945 --> 00:38:05,848
But I've been very interested
in the question of hybrids
665
00:38:05,882 --> 00:38:07,485
between blue and fin whales.
666
00:38:08,684 --> 00:38:10,987
So, the interesting question
has been,
667
00:38:11,021 --> 00:38:12,990
"Could the 52 Hertz Whale
668
00:38:13,023 --> 00:38:15,492
"be some hybrid
of the two species?"
669
00:38:17,594 --> 00:38:22,465
I heard about 52 Hertz
from Watkins.
670
00:38:22,498 --> 00:38:25,001
But he wasn't willing
to speculate much
671
00:38:25,034 --> 00:38:27,770
on what the whale was.
672
00:38:27,804 --> 00:38:29,907
I remember when I reviewed
the paper, I said,
673
00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:31,875
"Well, you know,
you should describe,
674
00:38:31,907 --> 00:38:33,710
"how is it similar
to blue whales,
675
00:38:33,744 --> 00:38:34,878
"how is it similar
to fin whales,
676
00:38:34,911 --> 00:38:36,980
"maybe it's some combination."
677
00:38:37,012 --> 00:38:39,516
I was trying to get him
to push a little bit
678
00:38:39,548 --> 00:38:40,784
on the theory
of "What is this?"
679
00:38:40,817 --> 00:38:42,085
But he wouldn't go there.
680
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,456
CALAMBOKIDIS: I think
if we can tag this whale,
681
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:48,692
and photograph,
collect samples,
682
00:38:48,724 --> 00:38:50,993
maybe we can
figure out an answer
683
00:38:51,027 --> 00:38:53,030
to identify
the 52 Hertz Whale.
684
00:38:54,030 --> 00:38:55,599
This is step one.
685
00:39:01,871 --> 00:39:05,842
ZEMAN: Outside of hearing 52,
our best chance of finding him
686
00:39:05,876 --> 00:39:08,644
was to look
for concentrations of whales,
687
00:39:08,677 --> 00:39:09,746
all feeding together.
688
00:39:11,514 --> 00:39:15,551
Which meant tagging as many
fin whales, blue whales,
689
00:39:15,585 --> 00:39:17,588
and even humpbacks
as possible,
690
00:39:18,889 --> 00:39:23,660
in hopes one will lead us
to these large groups,
691
00:39:23,693 --> 00:39:27,398
all feasting in these
nutrient-rich waters
692
00:39:27,431 --> 00:39:31,735
where we might hear,
or even see 52 among them.
693
00:39:40,811 --> 00:39:44,515
MAN: You wanna tag five again?
CALAMBOKIDIS: Uh, yeah.
694
00:39:44,547 --> 00:39:46,416
Some of the tags
that we're talking about
695
00:39:46,449 --> 00:39:47,984
have never been
deployed before.
696
00:39:48,018 --> 00:39:49,753
We are miniaturizing
the cameras
697
00:39:49,786 --> 00:39:52,423
that go on these
small instruments,
698
00:39:52,456 --> 00:39:54,625
adding these high sampling
rate accelerometers
699
00:39:54,657 --> 00:39:56,926
that can detect
if the call is coming
700
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,762
from the animal
it's attached to.
701
00:39:59,929 --> 00:40:02,665
These are brand-new
pieces of technology
702
00:40:02,699 --> 00:40:03,967
we're bringing to bear.
703
00:40:13,777 --> 00:40:15,012
Yep, sounds good.
704
00:40:16,045 --> 00:40:17,181
(ZEMAN SPEAKING)
705
00:40:20,150 --> 00:40:21,652
We're hearing them.
706
00:40:21,684 --> 00:40:24,422
There you go.
That's a nice one.
707
00:40:25,688 --> 00:40:27,857
SIROVIC:
It's a blue whale call.
708
00:40:27,891 --> 00:40:29,927
MAN ON RADIO: Truth boat
preparing to launch drone.
709
00:40:31,126 --> 00:40:32,128
Drone is in the air.
710
00:40:35,030 --> 00:40:36,866
CALAMBOKIDIS: Okay, let's go.
711
00:40:41,637 --> 00:40:42,873
There they are.
712
00:40:43,672 --> 00:40:45,074
(WHALE SPOUTING)
713
00:40:47,244 --> 00:40:48,778
(CAMERA CLICKING)
714
00:40:54,518 --> 00:40:57,019
Not really totally sure
what this animal's doing.
715
00:40:57,052 --> 00:40:59,255
It's been alternating,
seemingly holding
716
00:40:59,289 --> 00:41:01,859
a little bit of a westerly
traveling course.
717
00:41:04,193 --> 00:41:06,197
Uh, starting to get
just a little nervous.
718
00:41:07,230 --> 00:41:08,365
Maybe we've lost this whale.
719
00:41:08,398 --> 00:41:11,602
Maybe we should spread our
boats out a little bit more
720
00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:14,004
to guard against
a change of direction.
721
00:41:22,278 --> 00:41:23,481
MAN ON RADIO: We got a visual.
722
00:41:24,313 --> 00:41:25,648
Downwind.
723
00:41:33,623 --> 00:41:34,925
CALAMBOKIDIS:
What's our range?
724
00:41:34,958 --> 00:41:36,260
MAN: 150 meters.
725
00:41:38,561 --> 00:41:40,130
(ENGINE ACCELERATES)
726
00:41:44,701 --> 00:41:45,936
(ENGINE STOPS)
727
00:41:56,346 --> 00:41:59,849
- Damn, that was so close.
- Yeah, that was really close.
728
00:42:06,289 --> 00:42:07,591
Yeah.
729
00:42:12,596 --> 00:42:14,632
(LOW MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
730
00:42:19,635 --> 00:42:21,237
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
731
00:42:30,813 --> 00:42:32,549
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
732
00:42:34,617 --> 00:42:36,653
MAN: Good ship's on its way.
733
00:42:39,789 --> 00:42:42,159
What I'm able to do
is pull data
734
00:42:42,192 --> 00:42:44,728
from the copter
while it's flying,
735
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,663
and it will tell you
the GPS location
736
00:42:47,697 --> 00:42:49,365
as that
down to the second.
737
00:42:49,398 --> 00:42:50,299
Timestamp...
738
00:42:50,333 --> 00:42:52,001
Timewise, which is synced
with your GPS.
739
00:42:52,034 --> 00:42:53,737
CALAMBOKIDIS: It is. Okay.
740
00:42:53,769 --> 00:42:55,005
And can you
keep playing it ahead?
741
00:42:55,038 --> 00:42:57,206
Because my recollection, too,
is he did a series of breaths.
742
00:42:58,074 --> 00:42:59,909
MAN: Here we go.
743
00:42:59,943 --> 00:43:02,846
(LOW-PITCHED RHYTHMIC
WHALE CALL PLAYING ON SPEAKER)
744
00:43:13,789 --> 00:43:18,228
I think this is the first time
that you guys have caught,
745
00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:20,297
on a drone from the air,
a blue whale
746
00:43:20,329 --> 00:43:23,165
in the act of calling
and known it.
747
00:43:23,199 --> 00:43:26,068
You're usually not combining
these two mediums.
748
00:43:26,101 --> 00:43:29,338
And we know they call
not right at the surface,
749
00:43:29,371 --> 00:43:31,774
but slightly submerged.
750
00:43:31,807 --> 00:43:33,409
So, this is
totally consistent
751
00:43:33,443 --> 00:43:34,745
with the behavior
of them calling.
752
00:43:41,150 --> 00:43:44,721
ZEMAN: If 52 was with
other large groups of whales,
753
00:43:44,753 --> 00:43:48,125
our drones could now help us
single him out from the crowd.
754
00:43:49,391 --> 00:43:53,062
Yet, despite having
all this new technology,
755
00:43:53,096 --> 00:43:56,900
we still hadn't heard
52's mysterious call.
756
00:43:56,932 --> 00:43:59,068
A call that could be echoing
through the ocean depths
757
00:43:59,101 --> 00:44:01,404
right at this very moment.
758
00:44:01,438 --> 00:44:03,740
Just waiting to be heard.
759
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,784
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
760
00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:17,387
ROTHENBERG: So imagine
yourself in the 16th century
761
00:44:18,987 --> 00:44:22,058
on a big sailing boat
crossing the ocean.
762
00:44:26,061 --> 00:44:29,266
And you're in a bunk
below the water line
763
00:44:29,298 --> 00:44:32,235
and your head
is on a wooden board
764
00:44:32,268 --> 00:44:34,371
connected to the hull
of that ship.
765
00:44:38,942 --> 00:44:42,978
You would hear
the voices of whales.
766
00:44:43,012 --> 00:44:45,416
(WHALES CALLING)
767
00:44:46,916 --> 00:44:48,919
You would hear
singing humpbacks.
768
00:44:48,952 --> 00:44:51,054
(WHALE VOCALIZING
IN HIGH PITCH)
769
00:44:51,086 --> 00:44:53,155
You would hear
the "click, click" clicking
770
00:44:53,188 --> 00:44:54,990
of sperm whales.
771
00:44:55,023 --> 00:44:57,027
(MUFFLED CLICKING)
772
00:44:57,059 --> 00:44:59,096
And it was probably
a little terrifying,
773
00:44:59,128 --> 00:45:00,797
because you had no idea
774
00:45:00,829 --> 00:45:02,965
what it was
that you were listening to.
775
00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:07,403
Those stories exist.
776
00:45:07,436 --> 00:45:10,139
The siren song
of the ocean exists
777
00:45:10,172 --> 00:45:14,310
from the earliest historical
musings of mankind.
778
00:45:17,813 --> 00:45:20,384
And then suddenly,
we are immersed in a world
779
00:45:22,050 --> 00:45:24,920
where we decided
to kill whales.
780
00:45:24,954 --> 00:45:26,957
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
781
00:45:30,893 --> 00:45:32,995
You know, whales were
important to human beings
782
00:45:33,028 --> 00:45:34,364
in the 19th century,
783
00:45:34,396 --> 00:45:36,099
when whale oil was lighting up
784
00:45:36,132 --> 00:45:38,001
all of
the industrial revolution.
785
00:45:39,568 --> 00:45:42,271
And whales used to be
the main source of oil.
786
00:45:42,304 --> 00:45:44,907
For all lamps.
For all lubrication.
787
00:45:46,208 --> 00:45:48,044
It was big business
killing whales.
788
00:45:49,411 --> 00:45:51,981
And even as petroleum
was discovered,
789
00:45:52,014 --> 00:45:53,516
we didn't really need
all of this whale oil,
790
00:45:53,550 --> 00:45:55,152
but we kept on killing them.
791
00:45:55,184 --> 00:45:56,219
The momentum was there.
792
00:45:56,253 --> 00:45:59,322
We kept on killing,
kept on killing.
793
00:45:59,355 --> 00:46:02,057
GRAHAM BURNETT: We're not
talking about the heroic guy
794
00:46:02,090 --> 00:46:04,293
in the front of a boat
with a spear, no.
795
00:46:05,128 --> 00:46:06,430
We're talking about
796
00:46:06,463 --> 00:46:10,367
the floating factory vessels
with that stern slipway
797
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,568
that could draw
an entire whale up
798
00:46:12,601 --> 00:46:14,804
into the body of the ship.
799
00:46:14,838 --> 00:46:16,006
And not only are they using
800
00:46:16,039 --> 00:46:19,843
explosive ordnance
in those harpoon darts...
801
00:46:19,876 --> 00:46:22,278
Before it can sink,
they pierce the animal
802
00:46:22,311 --> 00:46:25,147
with a hypodermic tube
803
00:46:25,181 --> 00:46:26,849
that's attached
to an air compressor,
804
00:46:26,882 --> 00:46:28,317
inflate the animal
so it's turned
805
00:46:28,351 --> 00:46:31,421
into a kind of corpse buoy.
806
00:46:31,454 --> 00:46:34,391
And it's not an assembly line,
it's a disassembly line
807
00:46:34,423 --> 00:46:37,795
for the rendering
of corpse after corpse.
808
00:46:38,862 --> 00:46:40,963
Those ships could process
809
00:46:40,996 --> 00:46:44,134
dozens of animals
in a matter of hours.
810
00:46:44,467 --> 00:46:46,102
(GUNSHOT)
811
00:46:46,135 --> 00:46:47,571
(WHALE GROANING)
812
00:46:49,606 --> 00:46:53,109
ROTHENBERG: By the 1960s,
almost all the large whales,
813
00:46:53,141 --> 00:46:55,477
the blue whales,
the fin whales, the humpbacks,
814
00:46:55,510 --> 00:46:57,146
almost all of them were gone.
815
00:47:04,387 --> 00:47:05,989
And this all began to change
816
00:47:06,021 --> 00:47:08,458
after a young biologist
named Roger Payne
817
00:47:08,490 --> 00:47:11,061
started listening to the song
of the humpback whale.
818
00:47:12,961 --> 00:47:16,432
PAYNE: The public knew nothing
about whales at the time.
819
00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:20,437
I mean, scientists knew
that they made sounds.
820
00:47:22,237 --> 00:47:25,875
...20 seconds time...
821
00:47:25,909 --> 00:47:29,378
We'd heard, you know,
a few sounds from a few whales
822
00:47:29,411 --> 00:47:32,648
and they were interesting
and, sort of, groovy.
823
00:47:32,681 --> 00:47:36,585
But I was in Bermuda
listening for whales
824
00:47:36,619 --> 00:47:41,458
and what we heard
was completely different.
825
00:47:44,927 --> 00:47:47,263
(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
826
00:47:54,637 --> 00:47:57,106
(WHALE BELLOWING)
827
00:48:01,177 --> 00:48:03,447
(WHALES CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
828
00:48:05,315 --> 00:48:08,150
(BELLOWING LOWLY)
829
00:48:10,186 --> 00:48:13,356
(HIGH-PITCHED CALLING
CONTINUES)
830
00:48:18,161 --> 00:48:20,996
(WHALE CALLING IN LOWER PITCH)
831
00:48:21,030 --> 00:48:24,034
(HIGH AND LOWER-PITCHED CALLS
CONTINUE IN SUCCESSION)
832
00:48:28,070 --> 00:48:31,141
(BELLOWING)
833
00:48:36,211 --> 00:48:38,949
(WHALES CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
834
00:48:46,121 --> 00:48:49,259
PAYNE: It was an extremely
emotional experience.
835
00:48:50,994 --> 00:48:53,563
I thought, "My God,
if that won't get the world
836
00:48:53,596 --> 00:48:55,666
"interested in whales,
nothing will."
837
00:49:00,369 --> 00:49:03,239
So, I had a close friend
who was making records.
838
00:49:05,273 --> 00:49:07,509
And I said, (LAUGHING)
"How would you like to make
839
00:49:07,543 --> 00:49:09,680
"a record of
humpback whales singing?"
840
00:49:11,646 --> 00:49:14,985
And he said, "Sure!"
841
00:49:15,018 --> 00:49:17,153
ROTHENBERG: And it just
became amazingly popular.
842
00:49:19,188 --> 00:49:21,023
Everyone had to have a copy.
843
00:49:22,525 --> 00:49:24,561
It was
a multi-platinum record.
844
00:49:26,396 --> 00:49:29,365
Bestselling nature
recording of all time.
845
00:49:29,398 --> 00:49:31,567
And then
National Geographic said,
846
00:49:31,601 --> 00:49:34,771
"We want
10 and a half million copies."
847
00:49:34,804 --> 00:49:37,740
Which is the largest single
print order
848
00:49:37,773 --> 00:49:39,742
in the history of
the recording industry.
849
00:49:41,543 --> 00:49:43,346
The world realized...
850
00:49:43,378 --> 00:49:44,748
(WHALE CALL PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)
851
00:49:44,780 --> 00:49:46,615
...they sing,
852
00:49:46,648 --> 00:49:49,418
and when you found out
that they sing,
853
00:49:49,452 --> 00:49:50,787
everything changed.
854
00:49:50,820 --> 00:49:53,190
The world changed
around them.
855
00:49:55,557 --> 00:49:59,496
BURNETT: Whale song reads as
the presence of intelligence.
856
00:50:01,097 --> 00:50:04,501
We'd met our inhuman others
857
00:50:04,534 --> 00:50:07,137
that were nevertheless
a kind of mirror for us.
858
00:50:08,603 --> 00:50:10,139
ROTHENBERG:
Everyone was touched by it.
859
00:50:11,641 --> 00:50:13,343
It really had that effect.
860
00:50:14,844 --> 00:50:15,778
Even the Partridge Family
861
00:50:15,811 --> 00:50:18,080
had a whole episode
on saving the whales.
862
00:50:18,114 --> 00:50:24,286
♪ Sing me a song
of times that you knew
863
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:31,361
♪ Through a sky that was clear
from the sea to the land
864
00:50:31,393 --> 00:50:37,233
♪ Free from the fear
and destruction of man ♪
865
00:50:37,833 --> 00:50:39,335
(BAND VOCALIZES)
866
00:50:41,838 --> 00:50:44,106
MAN: (ON SPEAKER) The peace
movement lives in America.
867
00:50:44,139 --> 00:50:45,842
PAYNE: Of course, the time
we're talking about here
868
00:50:45,875 --> 00:50:50,380
is the time of protests
and getting some interest
869
00:50:50,413 --> 00:50:53,282
in trying to change some of
the problems in the world.
870
00:50:53,315 --> 00:50:55,451
I mean, it was a perfect storm
of circumstances,
871
00:50:55,485 --> 00:50:56,720
that's what you can say
about it.
872
00:50:59,655 --> 00:51:02,225
I think the way to start
any movement
873
00:51:02,257 --> 00:51:05,561
is you gotta fall in love
first with the species.
874
00:51:08,396 --> 00:51:10,365
We were killing,
at the time I started,
875
00:51:10,398 --> 00:51:12,768
about 33,000 whales a year.
876
00:51:15,204 --> 00:51:19,175
And then a lot of other groups
took off, like Greenpeace.
877
00:51:19,208 --> 00:51:20,811
MAN: (ON BLOWHORN) Please
stop killing the whales.
878
00:51:22,512 --> 00:51:25,248
Without them,
the oceans begin to die
879
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:26,882
and if the oceans
begin to die,
880
00:51:26,916 --> 00:51:29,619
we all begin to die.
881
00:51:31,521 --> 00:51:33,423
PAYNE: And we got it,
eventually,
882
00:51:33,456 --> 00:51:36,226
down to 330 whales a year.
883
00:51:36,259 --> 00:51:38,128
That's 1%.
884
00:51:40,329 --> 00:51:42,664
You know, we probably
never would've saved whales
885
00:51:42,697 --> 00:51:44,333
unless we heard them sing.
886
00:51:47,170 --> 00:51:48,738
It made people care.
887
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,176
And when people care...
888
00:51:55,677 --> 00:51:57,813
they can change the world.
889
00:51:59,581 --> 00:52:03,319
CLARK: Peace and love
was a very different age.
890
00:52:04,786 --> 00:52:06,555
You listen
to what was the dialogue
891
00:52:06,588 --> 00:52:08,357
that was going on then.
892
00:52:08,391 --> 00:52:11,461
And it was much more
about all of us.
893
00:52:12,594 --> 00:52:14,196
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
894
00:52:18,934 --> 00:52:22,505
And now we're in a situation
895
00:52:22,538 --> 00:52:26,208
where we've,
through one way or another,
896
00:52:26,242 --> 00:52:29,146
consciously
isolated ourselves.
897
00:52:31,313 --> 00:52:33,449
BURNETT: So if the promise
of the early '60s
898
00:52:33,481 --> 00:52:36,652
was communication
with ourselves
899
00:52:36,686 --> 00:52:39,422
in new ways
and with animals...
900
00:52:40,722 --> 00:52:43,592
The lonely whale
may be saying, uh,
901
00:52:44,693 --> 00:52:46,262
the... the...
902
00:52:46,295 --> 00:52:47,864
the wire's been cut.
903
00:52:53,369 --> 00:52:55,572
(PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING)
904
00:53:05,648 --> 00:53:10,220
SIROVIC:
97, 8 hours, D3, DIFAR.
905
00:53:10,253 --> 00:53:11,421
- HILDEBRAND: Awesome.
- SIROVIC: Yeah?
906
00:53:11,454 --> 00:53:12,522
Let's do it.
907
00:53:13,655 --> 00:53:15,391
Permission to
launch sonobuoy.
908
00:53:16,891 --> 00:53:18,494
MAN ON RADIO:
Yeah. Permission granted.
909
00:53:20,996 --> 00:53:22,231
All right.
910
00:53:24,567 --> 00:53:26,603
CALAMBOKIDIS: We're on
a mission of discovery.
911
00:53:28,536 --> 00:53:30,939
We want to learn something,
912
00:53:30,972 --> 00:53:32,507
an answer to a question
913
00:53:32,541 --> 00:53:33,943
no one else knows
the answer to,
914
00:53:35,510 --> 00:53:37,213
and this is an opportunity
to do that.
915
00:53:40,016 --> 00:53:41,617
HILDEBRAND:
There you go. See it?
916
00:53:42,451 --> 00:53:43,519
Boom.
917
00:53:51,827 --> 00:53:54,631
MAN: It's like you can see
the glow coming up right now!
918
00:53:54,664 --> 00:53:55,698
WOMAN: Yeah, you...
919
00:53:55,731 --> 00:53:56,766
MAN: It's just kinda
sitting there,
920
00:53:56,798 --> 00:53:57,733
they're kind of watching it.
921
00:53:57,766 --> 00:53:59,702
They're basically
getting ready to push this.
922
00:54:04,739 --> 00:54:05,640
DR. ANN ALLEN:
If he were a singer,
923
00:54:05,675 --> 00:54:07,443
there should be another one
showing up.
924
00:54:07,476 --> 00:54:09,746
I mean,
he's not letting us down yet.
925
00:54:11,347 --> 00:54:12,382
John, up right.
926
00:54:15,451 --> 00:54:16,987
(CAMERA CLICKING)
927
00:54:19,688 --> 00:54:21,625
- (WHALE SPOUTING)
- CADE: Boom.
928
00:54:22,590 --> 00:54:24,393
That's some back!
929
00:54:27,362 --> 00:54:29,965
CALAMBOKIDIS: My preference
would be to trail in a pair.
930
00:54:34,936 --> 00:54:36,471
ALLEN: This may be
a really easy on!
931
00:54:36,505 --> 00:54:38,340
CADE: Yeah,
he's not moving very fast.
932
00:54:39,974 --> 00:54:41,277
Okay, getting ready.
933
00:54:43,978 --> 00:54:45,314
CALAMBOKIDIS: Coming up!
934
00:54:52,954 --> 00:54:54,290
Too far behind.
935
00:54:55,925 --> 00:54:56,960
I thought
they were right in position.
936
00:54:56,992 --> 00:55:00,529
Like, right up swell from him,
ready to go down.
937
00:55:00,563 --> 00:55:01,898
CALAMBOKIDIS: I didn't
quite have a good read.
938
00:55:01,931 --> 00:55:03,699
When you said, "Coming up,"
I thought, "Go,"
939
00:55:03,733 --> 00:55:05,602
but I shouldn't have gone.
940
00:55:07,836 --> 00:55:09,539
Another one up right here.
941
00:55:14,909 --> 00:55:17,512
JAMES: There's another one
just behind it, John.
942
00:55:17,545 --> 00:55:20,549
There's another whale.
This is our pair.
943
00:55:20,583 --> 00:55:22,485
(CAMERA CLICKING)
944
00:55:24,619 --> 00:55:25,721
CALAMBOKIDIS:
Okay, we want trail.
945
00:55:25,755 --> 00:55:26,756
JAMES: Trail.
946
00:55:31,659 --> 00:55:32,828
(WHALE SPOUTING)
947
00:55:37,166 --> 00:55:39,501
ZEMAN: Looks like they're
gonna try and go for it?
948
00:55:39,534 --> 00:55:41,903
CADE: Right there.
There he is.
949
00:55:41,936 --> 00:55:43,639
They're going for it.
This is it.
950
00:55:46,141 --> 00:55:47,876
JAMES: John,
we're closing on him.
951
00:55:48,677 --> 00:55:49,879
We're closing.
952
00:55:51,045 --> 00:55:52,114
Coming up.
953
00:56:11,766 --> 00:56:12,902
Boom.
954
00:56:12,934 --> 00:56:15,438
(MAN SPEAKING)
955
00:56:15,471 --> 00:56:18,608
Now we'll track the animal
for as long as we can
956
00:56:18,641 --> 00:56:20,777
so that even if we
can't see the animal,
957
00:56:20,809 --> 00:56:21,844
we can actually
get a good idea
958
00:56:21,876 --> 00:56:24,146
of where it's at
and track it down.
959
00:56:24,179 --> 00:56:26,482
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING
ON SPEAKERS)
960
00:56:40,596 --> 00:56:42,398
(ENGINE ACCELERATING)
961
00:56:47,068 --> 00:56:49,105
CADE: Yeah, baby!
962
00:56:49,137 --> 00:56:51,407
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC
CONTINUES ON SPEAKERS)
963
00:56:56,612 --> 00:56:58,148
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
964
00:57:03,251 --> 00:57:06,422
(SINGING ALONG)
♪ Love will find... ♪
965
00:57:08,623 --> 00:57:12,828
Music for 52.
52, lost love music.
966
00:57:14,730 --> 00:57:16,800
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC
CONTINUES ON SPEAKERS)
967
00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:22,806
(MUFFLED MUSIC CONTINUES)
968
00:57:31,713 --> 00:57:33,949
(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)
969
00:57:49,764 --> 00:57:53,869
♪ There was a whale
so sad and lonely
970
00:57:53,902 --> 00:57:58,073
♪ Was out at sea
all on her only
971
00:57:58,106 --> 00:58:01,878
♪ Because she sang
so baratonely
972
00:58:01,911 --> 00:58:04,746
♪ Too low for other whales
to hear it
973
00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:07,083
♪ So no other whales
came near it
974
00:58:07,115 --> 00:58:09,952
♪ Still they sang out
full of spirit
975
00:58:10,619 --> 00:58:12,688
♪ She sang
976
00:58:12,721 --> 00:58:15,757
(IN DEEPER VOICE) ♪ "I'm
Doreen, the baleen whale
977
00:58:15,791 --> 00:58:18,260
♪ "Who wouldn't mind
meeting a male
978
00:58:18,293 --> 00:58:20,061
♪ "Who likes krill and swimmin'
979
00:58:20,094 --> 00:58:21,897
♪ "And low-voiced whale women
980
00:58:21,931 --> 00:58:23,900
♪ "My heart will find no love" ♪
981
00:58:33,876 --> 00:58:35,745
KATE MICUCCI:
It kinda hurts a little bit.
982
00:58:35,777 --> 00:58:36,846
You feel for the whale.
983
00:58:38,646 --> 00:58:40,715
I feel like
people can relate to it
984
00:58:40,748 --> 00:58:43,718
in a way that you just hear
about this one whale
985
00:58:43,751 --> 00:58:46,154
who's never
made any friends,
986
00:58:46,188 --> 00:58:49,759
and I think that really,
really resonates with people.
987
00:58:50,693 --> 00:58:52,961
They understand it.
988
00:58:52,994 --> 00:58:54,130
Everybody feels
like an outsider
989
00:58:54,163 --> 00:58:55,264
at some point
in their life.
990
00:58:56,931 --> 00:58:59,334
I think that's why so
many people care about it.
991
00:58:59,367 --> 00:59:03,072
About him.
Or Doreen, her, as in the song.
992
00:59:03,105 --> 00:59:04,139
But really,
what's his name?
993
00:59:04,172 --> 00:59:06,107
I guess
it's the 52 Hertz Whale?
994
00:59:06,141 --> 00:59:07,108
Does he have a name?
995
00:59:07,141 --> 00:59:09,077
ZEMAN: The scientists
have called him "52."
996
00:59:09,110 --> 00:59:10,980
52.
997
00:59:11,012 --> 00:59:13,148
Huh, he doesn't even have
a real name, he has a number.
998
00:59:14,382 --> 00:59:16,585
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
999
00:59:18,019 --> 00:59:19,855
ZEMAN: While many
had been inspired
1000
00:59:19,887 --> 00:59:21,690
by the notion
of a lonely whale,
1001
00:59:23,358 --> 00:59:26,862
where does the myth of
this story meet the science?
1002
00:59:29,998 --> 00:59:33,168
In other words,
could 52 even feel
1003
00:59:33,202 --> 00:59:35,838
that so-called human emotion?
1004
00:59:39,375 --> 00:59:42,177
Is this whale really lonely?
1005
00:59:42,210 --> 00:59:45,146
Whales, at least
from a biological perspective,
1006
00:59:45,179 --> 00:59:48,817
as much as we can tell,
have complex behaviors,
1007
00:59:48,851 --> 00:59:51,220
they have
a lot of parental care,
1008
00:59:51,253 --> 00:59:52,889
they have large brains.
1009
00:59:54,389 --> 00:59:57,125
So I think
this loneliness idea
1010
00:59:57,159 --> 00:59:59,362
is interesting
in that context.
1011
01:00:01,195 --> 01:00:02,731
On the other hand,
1012
01:00:02,764 --> 01:00:07,302
I really wouldn't want
to hazard a guess
1013
01:00:07,335 --> 01:00:08,870
of whether this creature's
1014
01:00:08,903 --> 01:00:12,240
actually emotionally lonely
or not.
1015
01:00:12,273 --> 01:00:15,844
VINT VIRGA:
Whales are social beings.
1016
01:00:16,344 --> 01:00:17,846
Period.
1017
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:20,816
The fact that
nobody is responding to him
1018
01:00:20,849 --> 01:00:24,653
absolutely, without a doubt,
this whale is lonely,
1019
01:00:24,686 --> 01:00:27,889
and that's not being
anthropomorphic.
1020
01:00:27,922 --> 01:00:32,127
Yeah, remarkably, if you say
things often enough,
1021
01:00:32,161 --> 01:00:34,163
it turns into fact.
1022
01:00:34,195 --> 01:00:36,699
But we don't have
very much information
1023
01:00:36,731 --> 01:00:38,900
to make these
broad, general statements.
1024
01:00:40,902 --> 01:00:42,404
PAYNE:
Any feeling that we have
1025
01:00:42,438 --> 01:00:44,673
that we call
"feeling lonely"
1026
01:00:44,706 --> 01:00:47,710
must be shared
with other animals.
1027
01:00:47,742 --> 01:00:50,145
The chances that we
invented these emotions
1028
01:00:50,179 --> 01:00:54,050
are basically somewhere
between zero and minus one.
1029
01:00:55,884 --> 01:00:59,320
PATRICK R HOF: We have a
good idea of what sentient is.
1030
01:00:59,353 --> 01:01:04,726
The sense of awareness,
the sense of self.
1031
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:09,132
A sense of how yourself
can relate to others.
1032
01:01:10,331 --> 01:01:11,432
In human beings,
1033
01:01:11,467 --> 01:01:14,369
we discovered
this particular cell type
1034
01:01:14,402 --> 01:01:17,072
known as spindle cells.
1035
01:01:17,106 --> 01:01:19,875
These are cells
that have to do
1036
01:01:19,907 --> 01:01:23,112
with self-awareness
and emotions.
1037
01:01:24,445 --> 01:01:26,047
We found that these cells
1038
01:01:26,081 --> 01:01:29,218
did not exist
only in the human.
1039
01:01:29,251 --> 01:01:33,289
We found plenty of these
neurons in the large whales.
1040
01:01:33,322 --> 01:01:37,460
So whether another species
is sentient...
1041
01:01:37,492 --> 01:01:39,795
it is possible.
1042
01:01:48,936 --> 01:01:50,505
ZEMAN: While we may
never know for sure
1043
01:01:50,539 --> 01:01:53,976
whether 52
has ever felt alone,
1044
01:01:54,009 --> 01:01:57,179
he was still a symbol
of connection for so many.
1045
01:01:59,014 --> 01:02:00,450
As he was for me.
1046
01:02:05,153 --> 01:02:07,356
Growing up,
I found my connections
1047
01:02:07,389 --> 01:02:10,425
in stories about the sea.
1048
01:02:10,458 --> 01:02:13,394
In quest to explore
these underwater worlds
1049
01:02:13,427 --> 01:02:16,498
and the mysterious creatures
that lived deep within it.
1050
01:02:18,199 --> 01:02:20,835
But now,
on this real-life expedition,
1051
01:02:20,869 --> 01:02:23,172
on this quest to find 52,
1052
01:02:24,338 --> 01:02:27,110
can I see the truth
behind this legend?
1053
01:02:29,143 --> 01:02:31,480
Only out here
on the open ocean,
1054
01:02:33,014 --> 01:02:35,317
have I come to realize
1055
01:02:35,349 --> 01:02:37,219
we're not just looking
for a lonely whale,
1056
01:02:39,188 --> 01:02:42,791
but for the most elusive
creature of them all.
1057
01:02:51,532 --> 01:02:53,301
(ZEMAN SPEAKING)
1058
01:02:55,570 --> 01:02:57,339
Usually,
I'll do a lot of singing.
1059
01:02:58,539 --> 01:03:00,543
I talk to the whales
a little more
1060
01:03:00,576 --> 01:03:03,012
than if anyone is around.
1061
01:03:03,045 --> 01:03:05,313
I really enjoy
being out on the ocean,
1062
01:03:05,347 --> 01:03:07,249
I really enjoy the adventure,
1063
01:03:07,282 --> 01:03:08,818
but the excitement is over
1064
01:03:08,851 --> 01:03:10,986
trying to learn,
or see something
1065
01:03:11,018 --> 01:03:13,855
that no one's been able
to describe before.
1066
01:03:13,889 --> 01:03:16,925
It's kind of, like,
your claim to meaningfulness
1067
01:03:16,958 --> 01:03:19,561
and the sea of humanity
we have.
1068
01:03:30,873 --> 01:03:32,875
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
1069
01:03:43,619 --> 01:03:45,221
ZEMAN: Looking for clues
as to where
1070
01:03:45,253 --> 01:03:48,089
whales may be congregating
in the area,
1071
01:03:48,123 --> 01:03:50,860
our scientists
attempt to locate a tag...
1072
01:03:50,893 --> 01:03:52,061
- (DEVICE BEEPING)
- ...that's dislodged
1073
01:03:52,094 --> 01:03:54,195
from one of the animals.
1074
01:03:54,228 --> 01:03:55,630
CALAMBOKIDIS I don't think
it can be terribly far,
1075
01:03:55,664 --> 01:03:58,200
because I got beeps
online on the whale.
1076
01:03:58,233 --> 01:04:00,936
(MAN SPEAKING)
1077
01:04:00,969 --> 01:04:02,538
CALAMBOKIDIS: Okay, if you've
got a good read on it,
1078
01:04:03,170 --> 01:04:04,405
(WATER SPLASHING)
1079
01:04:04,438 --> 01:04:06,576
(DEVICE CONTINUES BEEPING)
1080
01:04:07,541 --> 01:04:12,114
(CALAMBOKIDIS SPEAKING)
1081
01:04:14,449 --> 01:04:16,485
Copy all. I just entered
those numbers,
1082
01:04:16,518 --> 01:04:18,554
so we're
7.6 off of those.
1083
01:04:18,586 --> 01:04:20,590
I think we're gonna have
a fair stab at it.
1084
01:04:23,257 --> 01:04:24,593
(CADE SPEAKING)
1085
01:04:25,527 --> 01:04:27,963
(DEVICE BEEPING RAPIDLY)
1086
01:04:36,471 --> 01:04:37,505
Yeah!
1087
01:04:38,940 --> 01:04:40,375
Still recording,
good stuff.
1088
01:04:42,244 --> 01:04:45,414
Tag number three
is back in possession.
1089
01:04:45,447 --> 01:04:47,682
CALAMBOKIDIS: Okay,
we're going to move again.
1090
01:04:47,715 --> 01:04:48,516
Okay, John.
1091
01:04:50,184 --> 01:04:51,420
CAPTAIN DAVEY:
So here's our position
1092
01:04:51,452 --> 01:04:53,688
indicated by
that blue boat.
1093
01:04:53,722 --> 01:04:55,925
And we're about to cross
the shipping lane
1094
01:04:55,958 --> 01:04:57,660
almost at a right angle.
1095
01:04:57,693 --> 01:05:01,230
And these green marks
are other vessels,
1096
01:05:01,262 --> 01:05:03,365
so he's getting
in pretty close company.
1097
01:05:05,300 --> 01:05:08,137
ZEMAN: What kind of container
ship do you think that is?
1098
01:05:08,170 --> 01:05:11,173
CALAMBOKIDIS: That's
a car carrier going to LA,
1099
01:05:11,206 --> 01:05:16,178
filled with cars, likely
Taiwan, China, or Japan.
1100
01:05:16,210 --> 01:05:18,313
And unfortunate,
through chance,
1101
01:05:18,347 --> 01:05:19,982
this shipping lane
goes right along
1102
01:05:20,014 --> 01:05:22,083
one of the most common
areas for blue whales.
1103
01:05:31,059 --> 01:05:32,294
CALAMBOKIDIS: We've had
numerous ship strikes
1104
01:05:32,327 --> 01:05:34,330
of these animals
in Southern California
1105
01:05:34,362 --> 01:05:36,230
because there's so much
shipping traffic
1106
01:05:36,264 --> 01:05:37,566
that comes into that area.
1107
01:05:37,599 --> 01:05:39,468
(CAMERA CLICKING)
1108
01:05:51,146 --> 01:05:53,082
We know from
some of our tags
1109
01:05:53,114 --> 01:05:56,284
that these whales
do very little response
1110
01:05:56,318 --> 01:05:58,653
to ships in terms of knowing
how to avoid them.
1111
01:06:00,054 --> 01:06:02,023
They'll make very little
lateral movement
1112
01:06:02,056 --> 01:06:03,358
away from
the track of a ship.
1113
01:06:04,726 --> 01:06:07,096
So, these huge ships
sometimes,
1114
01:06:07,128 --> 01:06:10,665
traveling at 25
or more knots,
1115
01:06:10,699 --> 01:06:14,036
it's clear they're not adapted
to deal with that threat.
1116
01:06:15,771 --> 01:06:17,439
ZEMAN: The Santa Barbara
shipping lane
1117
01:06:17,472 --> 01:06:21,677
leads directly to the ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach,
1118
01:06:21,710 --> 01:06:25,414
the busiest shipping hub
in the United States.
1119
01:06:25,447 --> 01:06:27,782
It accounts for close
to half of all goods
1120
01:06:27,815 --> 01:06:30,051
coming into this country.
1121
01:06:30,085 --> 01:06:34,389
90% of everything we consume,
everything we eat,
1122
01:06:34,422 --> 01:06:37,158
everything we wear,
everything we live in,
1123
01:06:37,192 --> 01:06:39,461
comes to us
from someplace else.
1124
01:06:41,063 --> 01:06:43,298
And it comes by sea.
1125
01:06:43,331 --> 01:06:45,334
(SHIP HORN BLOWS)
1126
01:06:46,635 --> 01:06:47,737
HILDEBRAND:
This is chronic.
1127
01:06:49,237 --> 01:06:52,008
Always present,
there's noise.
1128
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:54,210
That's what the ships do.
1129
01:06:56,411 --> 01:06:59,280
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1130
01:06:59,313 --> 01:07:02,451
So, the container ship
will come along,
1131
01:07:02,483 --> 01:07:04,052
and it will absolutely
wipe us out.
1132
01:07:05,286 --> 01:07:06,422
'Cause it'll be
so much noise,
1133
01:07:08,322 --> 01:07:10,091
and you just...
There's nothing you can do.
1134
01:07:10,125 --> 01:07:11,460
You just wait
for the ship to go by.
1135
01:07:13,762 --> 01:07:15,131
You get mad,
1136
01:07:16,331 --> 01:07:17,466
you get grumpy.
1137
01:07:20,335 --> 01:07:23,706
There are other noises from
explosions to look for oil.
1138
01:07:25,706 --> 01:07:28,510
We set up sonar
to hunt for submarines.
1139
01:07:30,344 --> 01:07:32,614
But the most ubiquitous
are the ships.
1140
01:07:35,784 --> 01:07:39,288
CLARK: The acoustic footprint
from a ship going 30 knots...
1141
01:07:41,123 --> 01:07:44,659
There are rings of energy
radiating out from that ship
1142
01:07:44,693 --> 01:07:47,096
that go for 200, 300 miles.
1143
01:07:48,896 --> 01:07:53,335
Sixty years ago,
ship noise didn't exist.
1144
01:07:53,367 --> 01:07:57,438
Today, when we think
of all the shipping traffic,
1145
01:07:57,472 --> 01:08:01,276
fifty thousand ships moving
over the surface of the ocean,
1146
01:08:01,309 --> 01:08:03,378
and we think
of a really big place,
1147
01:08:03,411 --> 01:08:07,215
such as the environment
off Southern California,
1148
01:08:07,248 --> 01:08:11,819
Seattle, Philadelphia,
Vancouver,
1149
01:08:11,853 --> 01:08:14,690
New York,
on and on and on.
1150
01:08:14,722 --> 01:08:16,824
(SHIP'S ENGINE CLANGING)
1151
01:08:16,858 --> 01:08:19,561
The noise levels
are a thousand times,
1152
01:08:19,594 --> 01:08:22,264
ten thousand times greater
1153
01:08:22,296 --> 01:08:24,365
than they would be
under natural conditions.
1154
01:08:24,399 --> 01:08:25,401
(WHALES SPOUTING)
1155
01:08:27,536 --> 01:08:30,838
So, imagine you're a whale.
1156
01:08:30,872 --> 01:08:35,511
Your eyes can only see
your tail, maybe 30 feet away.
1157
01:08:38,313 --> 01:08:41,650
Your ears are what you're
going to pay attention to.
1158
01:08:41,682 --> 01:08:42,851
(MUFFLED WAVES CRASHING)
1159
01:08:45,386 --> 01:08:49,190
You can hear the waves
of the shore to your left,
1160
01:08:49,224 --> 01:08:51,193
which indicate the coastline.
1161
01:08:53,761 --> 01:08:57,732
You can hear the voices
of other whales...
1162
01:08:57,765 --> 01:08:59,534
(WHALES CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
1163
01:08:59,568 --> 01:09:01,837
...from hundreds
of miles away.
1164
01:09:01,869 --> 01:09:05,573
(WHALE CALL CONTINUES)
1165
01:09:07,375 --> 01:09:09,310
And in the distance,
1166
01:09:09,344 --> 01:09:12,914
the noise
of ships approaching.
1167
01:09:12,948 --> 01:09:15,651
You can actually hear
the propellers churning.
1168
01:09:15,684 --> 01:09:18,854
And the noise rises
and rises and rises and rises.
1169
01:09:18,886 --> 01:09:19,954
(MUFFLED ENGINE CLANGING)
1170
01:09:19,988 --> 01:09:22,423
This massive acoustic smog.
1171
01:09:23,692 --> 01:09:25,594
And then,
out of the distance...
1172
01:09:25,627 --> 01:09:26,662
(MUFFLED GUNSHOTS)
1173
01:09:26,694 --> 01:09:30,364
...the sounds of
a seismic air gun array,
1174
01:09:30,398 --> 01:09:34,269
prospecting for oil and gas
beneath the seafloor.
1175
01:09:34,301 --> 01:09:36,237
(SEISMIC AIR GUN
CONTINUES BLASTING)
1176
01:09:43,778 --> 01:09:45,914
It drowns out everything
1177
01:09:45,947 --> 01:09:48,917
you could possibly
be listening to.
1178
01:09:48,949 --> 01:09:51,586
(MUFFLED GUN BLASTING
CONTINUES)
1179
01:10:10,337 --> 01:10:16,444
Humans, naturally,
we are social beings.
1180
01:10:16,478 --> 01:10:19,347
We are intensely social beings,
1181
01:10:19,381 --> 01:10:24,820
and we do all kinds of things
in order to be social beings.
1182
01:10:24,853 --> 01:10:27,288
The greatest
joys one can feel
1183
01:10:27,322 --> 01:10:30,359
is actually in
the connectivity with life.
1184
01:10:32,493 --> 01:10:35,529
You know perfectly well
the difference between
1185
01:10:35,563 --> 01:10:39,533
being in a room
with your friends
1186
01:10:39,567 --> 01:10:42,837
and laughing and singing
and conversing
1187
01:10:42,871 --> 01:10:45,774
and knowing that you are
connected with each other.
1188
01:10:45,806 --> 01:10:49,310
As opposed to going to
dinner in a restaurant
1189
01:10:49,344 --> 01:10:52,448
and it's so noisy,
you can't hear anything.
1190
01:10:54,349 --> 01:10:57,886
We're depriving these animals
of their abilities
1191
01:10:57,918 --> 01:11:00,456
to maintain
their social systems.
1192
01:11:03,658 --> 01:11:04,926
ZEMAN:
What would it feel like
1193
01:11:04,958 --> 01:11:06,795
to have your whole world
drowned out,
1194
01:11:06,828 --> 01:11:08,764
unable to communicate?
1195
01:11:10,664 --> 01:11:13,635
By suffocating
these creatures with noise,
1196
01:11:13,667 --> 01:11:17,372
we were creating a whole ocean
of lonely whales.
1197
01:11:20,375 --> 01:11:24,011
It was a scourge we witnessed
every day on this expedition,
1198
01:11:24,045 --> 01:11:26,849
as it jeopardized our chances
of finding 52
1199
01:11:28,882 --> 01:11:30,452
and we were
running out of time.
1200
01:11:32,354 --> 01:11:33,789
We had only
one day left
1201
01:11:33,822 --> 01:11:35,524
and our best option
for locating
1202
01:11:35,556 --> 01:11:37,024
large groups of whales,
1203
01:11:37,057 --> 01:11:39,027
and possibly 52,
1204
01:11:39,060 --> 01:11:42,030
was the evidence retrieved
from one of our tags.
1205
01:11:46,134 --> 01:11:48,703
CADE: So here's our deployment
from yesterday.
1206
01:11:48,737 --> 01:11:50,538
Really good stuff.
1207
01:11:50,572 --> 01:11:52,873
You know, we were lucky
to even recover this tag,
1208
01:11:52,907 --> 01:11:56,078
because this animal
traveled to the west.
1209
01:11:56,110 --> 01:11:59,847
Basically, I think we made
assumptions that were wrong.
1210
01:11:59,881 --> 01:12:04,019
My main strategy
was to proceed to the east.
1211
01:12:04,051 --> 01:12:07,622
Now we know that 12,
13 miles to the west
1212
01:12:08,622 --> 01:12:09,757
are a bunch of whales.
1213
01:12:13,528 --> 01:12:15,463
(SEAGULL SQUAWKS)
1214
01:12:26,474 --> 01:12:27,609
There's actually
a beer in there.
1215
01:12:29,644 --> 01:12:31,079
One lonely beer.
1216
01:12:34,748 --> 01:12:37,018
CALAMBOKIDIS:
Okay, plan for the day.
1217
01:12:37,051 --> 01:12:39,621
Uh, we can already see
white caps out here,
1218
01:12:39,654 --> 01:12:42,657
but we're still gonna go out
and try to head west.
1219
01:12:42,689 --> 01:12:45,426
So if we get
to this concentration,
1220
01:12:45,460 --> 01:12:47,762
obviously it's gonna be good
to have a sonobuoy out
1221
01:12:47,796 --> 01:12:49,631
and listen for 52.
1222
01:12:51,533 --> 01:12:52,868
(CHAIN CLANKING)
1223
01:12:57,204 --> 01:12:58,407
MAN: Yeah, baby!
1224
01:13:12,854 --> 01:13:14,623
(WIND RUMBLING)
1225
01:13:24,198 --> 01:13:25,500
This is the spot.
1226
01:13:25,533 --> 01:13:26,802
Probably one of
the windiest stretches
1227
01:13:26,835 --> 01:13:28,470
in Southern California,
1228
01:13:28,502 --> 01:13:30,037
really hard to get to,
1229
01:13:30,070 --> 01:13:33,707
uh, and totally exposed
to the prevailing conditions.
1230
01:13:33,740 --> 01:13:35,144
(WIND HOWLING)
1231
01:13:36,810 --> 01:13:38,179
(WAVES SPLASHING)
1232
01:13:43,016 --> 01:13:45,153
(SPEAKING)
1233
01:13:49,056 --> 01:13:50,125
Here we go.
1234
01:13:55,963 --> 01:13:56,965
(BEEPS)
1235
01:14:08,009 --> 01:14:10,779
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
1236
01:14:10,811 --> 01:14:11,979
Copy that. Go ahead.
1237
01:14:13,547 --> 01:14:15,050
(CALAMBOKIDIS ON RADIO)
34 degrees,
1238
01:14:15,082 --> 01:14:18,519
11.92, 120 degrees,
1239
01:14:18,552 --> 01:14:19,921
35.15.
1240
01:14:21,922 --> 01:14:23,657
(MAN SPEAKS)
1241
01:14:23,690 --> 01:14:26,060
Let's see. I don't see
anything just yet.
1242
01:14:28,563 --> 01:14:29,832
(CADE SPEAKING)
1243
01:14:42,210 --> 01:14:44,779
Stop boat! Stop boat,
stop boat, stop boat!
1244
01:14:44,811 --> 01:14:45,846
Whale up!
1245
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:47,682
(ENGINE STOPS)
1246
01:14:52,252 --> 01:14:53,921
(ON RADIO) Okay, we're gonna
hang out around these guys
1247
01:14:53,954 --> 01:14:55,122
until we get
a couple good IDs.
1248
01:14:56,157 --> 01:14:57,226
Oh, my God.
1249
01:14:59,594 --> 01:15:01,063
(WHALES SPOUTING)
1250
01:15:05,033 --> 01:15:06,768
(ON RADIO) These guys until
we get a couple good IDs.
1251
01:15:06,801 --> 01:15:08,103
Okay, we're here.
1252
01:15:08,136 --> 01:15:10,005
(SPEAKING)
1253
01:15:10,037 --> 01:15:12,139
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
1254
01:15:16,144 --> 01:15:17,913
(ENGINE WHIRRING)
1255
01:15:38,765 --> 01:15:40,768
(WHALES CONTINUE SPOUTING)
1256
01:16:00,354 --> 01:16:03,123
I've never seen
anything like this.
1257
01:16:03,157 --> 01:16:06,895
We've both been down in
this area for two years now
1258
01:16:06,927 --> 01:16:09,930
and we've had a hard time
finding blue whales at all.
1259
01:16:09,963 --> 01:16:11,065
And when we have, it's been
1260
01:16:11,099 --> 01:16:13,068
single individuals
or pairs usually.
1261
01:16:13,100 --> 01:16:14,768
We've never seen
an aggregation
1262
01:16:14,801 --> 01:16:16,572
- this big in this area.
- MAN: This one, this one. That one
1263
01:16:20,408 --> 01:16:22,044
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
1264
01:16:25,212 --> 01:16:26,947
ALLEN: Yeah, there's a lot
of animals out there,
1265
01:16:26,980 --> 01:16:28,617
I don't know if you guys
have looked outside.
1266
01:16:28,649 --> 01:16:29,884
HILDEBRAND:
Yeah, everywhere.
1267
01:16:29,917 --> 01:16:31,319
We're surrounded.
(CHUCKLES)
1268
01:16:31,351 --> 01:16:33,055
HILDEBRAND:
Yeah, it's a good day.
1269
01:16:34,255 --> 01:16:35,724
(WHALE SPOUTING)
1270
01:16:35,756 --> 01:16:36,657
CADE: Whoa,
what was that?
1271
01:16:39,060 --> 01:16:41,196
What was that?
What was on its dorsal fin?
1272
01:16:43,765 --> 01:16:44,900
(CADE SPEAKING OVER RADIO)
1273
01:16:53,041 --> 01:16:54,309
(CAMERA CLICKING)
1274
01:16:54,341 --> 01:16:56,076
If you look out
the front...
1275
01:16:56,109 --> 01:16:58,045
- ZEMAN: Oh, my God!
- HILDEBRAND: ...it's just in front of us.
1276
01:16:58,078 --> 01:16:59,380
You see the footprint?
1277
01:16:59,413 --> 01:17:00,681
- See where the water is kind of smooth?
- ZEMAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1278
01:17:00,715 --> 01:17:01,449
- That's right there.
- HILDEBRAND: That's where they surface.
1279
01:17:01,483 --> 01:17:03,318
He's headed
to the left there.
1280
01:17:03,350 --> 01:17:04,652
ZEMAN: That's amazing.
1281
01:17:05,386 --> 01:17:06,755
ALLEN:
What'd he say, Dave?
1282
01:17:06,787 --> 01:17:07,955
CADE: He said,
"Yeah, hang tight."
1283
01:17:07,988 --> 01:17:09,390
If we have one
that's a potential hybrid,
1284
01:17:09,423 --> 01:17:11,826
like, hang tight,
let's go check that out.
1285
01:17:11,859 --> 01:17:13,862
- Is he gonna come over?
- He's coming over.
1286
01:17:13,895 --> 01:17:15,330
(ENGINE WHIRRING)
1287
01:17:19,367 --> 01:17:22,104
The second one...
The sensor isn't as deep.
1288
01:17:23,371 --> 01:17:24,739
- Channel...
- Right.
1289
01:17:26,073 --> 01:17:27,875
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1290
01:17:29,844 --> 01:17:31,145
HILDEBRAND: How come
there's nothing here?
1291
01:17:42,457 --> 01:17:44,126
(RADIO STATIC HISSING)
1292
01:17:47,127 --> 01:17:50,898
HILDEBRAND: We're just waiting
for the whales to speak to us.
1293
01:17:50,931 --> 01:17:52,934
There's nobody at the surface
right now.
1294
01:17:54,234 --> 01:17:56,103
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1295
01:17:58,072 --> 01:17:59,474
HILDEBRAND:
This is really bad.
1296
01:17:59,506 --> 01:18:01,143
Really bad, bad, bad.
1297
01:18:03,944 --> 01:18:05,079
(ZEMAN SPEAKS)
1298
01:18:09,015 --> 01:18:10,885
(SHIP HORN BLOWS)
1299
01:18:18,059 --> 01:18:20,362
(CALAMBOKIDIS ON RADIO) It's a
ship coming down the channel.
1300
01:18:24,465 --> 01:18:25,934
(SIGHS)
1301
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,470
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
1302
01:18:38,445 --> 01:18:40,314
(SHIP HORN BLOWS)
1303
01:19:05,506 --> 01:19:07,842
CALAMBOKIDIS: I mean,
if there is any opportunity
1304
01:19:07,875 --> 01:19:09,010
to come back here,
1305
01:19:10,110 --> 01:19:12,814
looking for the 52 Hertz Whale,
1306
01:19:14,314 --> 01:19:17,752
I would say this is our
highest priority area to work.
1307
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:24,458
Between what we've observed
before and what we saw today,
1308
01:19:24,492 --> 01:19:26,394
makes it very intriguing
to work here.
1309
01:19:35,002 --> 01:19:37,005
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
1310
01:19:45,078 --> 01:19:47,047
(SQUAWKING)
1311
01:20:06,868 --> 01:20:08,336
ZEMAN:
We all fear risk.
1312
01:20:10,470 --> 01:20:12,873
The risk of believing
in something
1313
01:20:12,907 --> 01:20:14,476
that just may
not come true.
1314
01:20:17,878 --> 01:20:20,347
I truly believed
I was going to find 52...
1315
01:20:24,085 --> 01:20:25,487
And I won't say
it didn't matter,
1316
01:20:26,654 --> 01:20:28,089
because it did.
1317
01:20:29,556 --> 01:20:32,260
I was gonna be the one
to solve this mystery,
1318
01:20:34,295 --> 01:20:35,430
to find that answer.
1319
01:20:37,398 --> 01:20:38,500
But I was wrong.
1320
01:20:46,172 --> 01:20:47,375
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
1321
01:20:52,145 --> 01:20:54,581
CALAMBOKIDIS: Hey, Scott.
Is Bruce on as well?
1322
01:20:54,614 --> 01:20:55,617
- MATE: I am.
- BAKER: Yes.
1323
01:20:56,583 --> 01:20:57,885
(MATE SPEAKING)
1324
01:21:01,488 --> 01:21:02,590
(BAKER SPEAKING)
1325
01:21:20,507 --> 01:21:23,243
- In 2004,
- Mm-hm.
1326
01:21:23,277 --> 01:21:25,512
- we came right out here off San Miguel...
- Mm-hmm.
1327
01:21:25,546 --> 01:21:28,016
...and we encountered a big
group of blue and fin whales,
1328
01:21:28,048 --> 01:21:30,217
and in amongst them,
paired with a blue whale,
1329
01:21:30,251 --> 01:21:33,488
was this whale that looked
in between the two.
1330
01:21:34,521 --> 01:21:35,590
(BAKER SPEAKING)
1331
01:21:51,072 --> 01:21:52,373
Hey, Bruce.
Remember we were saying
1332
01:21:52,405 --> 01:21:54,074
how hard it would be
to find this whale
1333
01:21:54,108 --> 01:21:55,610
and here we are,
like, four years later,
1334
01:21:55,643 --> 01:21:57,511
and we've, kind of, almost,
1335
01:21:57,545 --> 01:21:59,346
extremely close
to finding this whale.
1336
01:22:00,213 --> 01:22:01,349
(MATE SPEAKING)
1337
01:22:30,543 --> 01:22:33,613
Well, if you put together
Bruce's data that tells us
1338
01:22:33,646 --> 01:22:36,250
where the whale is
at a particular time,
1339
01:22:36,283 --> 01:22:38,686
with the underwater
sound data
1340
01:22:38,719 --> 01:22:41,389
from the site
that we've maintained,
1341
01:22:41,421 --> 01:22:43,457
you could make
some sort of correspondence
1342
01:22:43,490 --> 01:22:47,095
to say when the whale
was near the sensor,
1343
01:22:47,127 --> 01:22:48,695
what sort of song
did we hear?
1344
01:22:48,729 --> 01:22:50,765
When do you think
you'll be able to look
1345
01:22:50,797 --> 01:22:52,766
at the data
from this HARP?
1346
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,235
It usually takes
a couple of weeks.
1347
01:22:55,269 --> 01:22:57,105
Before Thanksgiving
we should know.
1348
01:22:57,537 --> 01:22:58,973
(MATE SPEAKING)
1349
01:23:05,813 --> 01:23:07,248
It's an amazing
set of events.
1350
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:09,449
Yeah. We couldn't have
planned it this way.
1351
01:23:09,483 --> 01:23:12,119
CALAMBOKIDIS: What are
the chances of this happening?
1352
01:23:12,153 --> 01:23:14,489
ZEMAN: We now had
one last opportunity
1353
01:23:14,521 --> 01:23:17,625
to prove our expedition
hadn't been in vain.
1354
01:23:19,359 --> 01:23:22,130
To finish the work
Watkins had started.
1355
01:23:23,463 --> 01:23:26,100
And to prove
all these years of searching
1356
01:23:27,435 --> 01:23:28,570
have been worth it.
1357
01:23:32,105 --> 01:23:35,309
Every story
has an ending,
1358
01:23:35,341 --> 01:23:38,479
even if it wasn't the one
you expected.
1359
01:23:45,618 --> 01:23:47,488
(SEAGULL SQUAWKS)
1360
01:24:11,878 --> 01:24:13,581
ZEMAN: So you're saying
1361
01:24:13,613 --> 01:24:19,619
that you know when the whale
went over this HARP?
1362
01:24:19,653 --> 01:24:21,356
That whale
that they tagged?
1363
01:24:23,123 --> 01:24:25,760
HILDEBRAND:
So we have a station
1364
01:24:25,792 --> 01:24:27,828
off of Point Conception,
1365
01:24:27,862 --> 01:24:29,663
and it's that station
1366
01:24:29,697 --> 01:24:33,167
where the tagged whale
from Bruce
1367
01:24:33,199 --> 01:24:35,735
passed right over the top
of our sensor.
1368
01:24:35,769 --> 01:24:39,407
He only had it tagged
for a few weeks
1369
01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:42,376
and we looked at those
time periods really carefully.
1370
01:24:44,912 --> 01:24:48,449
The times that Bruce's whale
swam over our instrument,
1371
01:24:50,818 --> 01:24:52,186
it was not singing.
1372
01:24:55,456 --> 01:24:57,158
Okay. You're sure?
1373
01:25:02,496 --> 01:25:05,565
HILDEBRAND: The absence of
those calls doesn't mean that,
1374
01:25:05,599 --> 01:25:07,268
you know,
the whale wasn't there.
1375
01:25:09,537 --> 01:25:10,637
It just wasn't calling.
1376
01:25:15,341 --> 01:25:16,710
We had an opportunity.
1377
01:25:18,179 --> 01:25:21,583
But, you know,
all the stars did not align.
1378
01:25:28,622 --> 01:25:30,291
So, this was the bad news.
1379
01:25:31,225 --> 01:25:33,194
What do you mean?
1380
01:25:33,226 --> 01:25:34,362
HILDEBRAND:
We do have some good news.
1381
01:25:36,529 --> 01:25:39,367
SIROVIC: We were looking at
the data from the other sites
1382
01:25:41,234 --> 01:25:44,139
and we saw
the 52 Hertz Whale calling.
1383
01:25:45,271 --> 01:25:46,507
This is off of Los Angeles.
1384
01:25:48,208 --> 01:25:51,945
Now, at the same time,
off of San Diego,
1385
01:25:51,979 --> 01:25:55,283
we have here,
similar image,
1386
01:25:55,315 --> 01:25:56,884
again, several minutes
of data,
1387
01:25:56,917 --> 01:26:00,387
and you see these
same little marks.
1388
01:26:00,421 --> 01:26:02,423
And this is within ten
minutes of each other
1389
01:26:02,456 --> 01:26:04,926
that we hear
the Watkins Whale
1390
01:26:04,958 --> 01:26:08,229
in two locations that
are about 90 miles apart.
1391
01:26:10,396 --> 01:26:13,367
These are completely
different sequences
1392
01:26:13,399 --> 01:26:14,635
- at the same time.
- At the same time.
1393
01:26:18,605 --> 01:26:19,673
HILDEBRAND:
It's a culture.
1394
01:26:19,707 --> 01:26:22,877
You could say whale
sounds are a language,
1395
01:26:22,909 --> 01:26:29,716
but they also have to listen
to each other and synchronize.
1396
01:26:29,750 --> 01:26:33,854
And so, who is the 52 Hertz
Whale synchronizing with?
1397
01:26:34,921 --> 01:26:36,190
It's not just one.
1398
01:26:38,292 --> 01:26:39,394
There's at least two.
1399
01:26:40,493 --> 01:26:43,331
Two 52 Hertz Whales.
1400
01:26:43,896 --> 01:26:45,233
There are two.
1401
01:26:48,769 --> 01:26:49,871
Probably more.
1402
01:26:59,046 --> 01:27:00,114
ZEMAN: We might
never have known
1403
01:27:00,146 --> 01:27:02,783
there was more than
one 52 Hertz Whale
1404
01:27:02,815 --> 01:27:04,851
had we not heard
this one call out.
1405
01:27:04,885 --> 01:27:06,621
(WHALE CALLING)
1406
01:27:06,654 --> 01:27:08,456
With a voice
that cut through the noise,
1407
01:27:09,489 --> 01:27:10,925
that demanded
to be heard.
1408
01:27:13,661 --> 01:27:15,796
A voice that reminded us
1409
01:27:15,828 --> 01:27:18,465
the ocean
is not a lonely place.
1410
01:27:18,498 --> 01:27:20,902
(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)
1411
01:27:26,739 --> 01:27:28,408
Our discovery
only proves
1412
01:27:28,442 --> 01:27:31,545
that Watkins was right
all along.
1413
01:27:31,578 --> 01:27:34,582
In the ocean,
what we can hear
1414
01:27:34,614 --> 01:27:38,019
is truly far more powerful
than what we can see.
1415
01:27:39,386 --> 01:27:42,657
And it resonates
with a mysterious beauty
1416
01:27:42,689 --> 01:27:45,960
that we are only just
beginning to understand.
1417
01:27:55,034 --> 01:27:57,537
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
1418
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:01,876
HILDEBRAND: The 52 Hertz
still is a mystery,
1419
01:28:03,444 --> 01:28:05,379
but I think it's important
to do things
1420
01:28:05,412 --> 01:28:08,449
where you don't know
what the answer's going to be,
1421
01:28:08,481 --> 01:28:10,284
because that's where
you really learn something.
1422
01:28:11,984 --> 01:28:13,420
CALAMBOKIDIS:
You have billions of people
1423
01:28:13,453 --> 01:28:14,988
on this planet.
1424
01:28:15,021 --> 01:28:17,324
Where can you
carve out a unique,
1425
01:28:17,358 --> 01:28:19,393
meaningful role
for yourself
1426
01:28:19,426 --> 01:28:22,063
where you can kind of find
this thing out and share it.
1427
01:28:27,868 --> 01:28:30,004
It may take
a long time,
1428
01:28:30,037 --> 01:28:31,706
but we're going to find
this animal.
1429
01:28:31,738 --> 01:28:34,074
(WHALE CALLING)
1430
01:28:34,108 --> 01:28:35,976
ZEMAN: After years
of endless searching,
1431
01:28:36,976 --> 01:28:38,546
after years of calling out,
1432
01:28:39,380 --> 01:28:41,815
52 finally had his answer
1433
01:28:42,548 --> 01:28:44,585
and I had mine.
1434
01:28:45,085 --> 01:28:47,954
(ZEMAN SPEAKING)
1435
01:28:48,654 --> 01:28:49,689
(CLICKS TONGUE)
1436
01:28:49,722 --> 01:28:52,627
That's the... That's the
ultimate question, isn't it?
1437
01:28:54,127 --> 01:28:58,799
It's not about biology
and it's not about science.
1438
01:29:00,567 --> 01:29:04,372
It's about ourselves.
1439
01:29:04,404 --> 01:29:07,074
It's about our own ability
to communicate
1440
01:29:08,841 --> 01:29:11,612
and our own isolation.
1441
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:15,115
It's a human experience,
1442
01:29:17,150 --> 01:29:20,387
a reflection
of who we are.
1443
01:29:23,189 --> 01:29:24,759
This whale
isn't lonely.
1444
01:29:26,827 --> 01:29:30,465
This story is about
all of us.
1445
01:29:33,033 --> 01:29:36,604
ZEMAN: To some,
this whale was a hybrid.
1446
01:29:36,636 --> 01:29:39,373
To others,
he was an outsider,
1447
01:29:40,908 --> 01:29:43,177
or even a legend.
1448
01:29:43,210 --> 01:29:46,547
Yet, in our search,
we found a new story,
1449
01:29:46,579 --> 01:29:50,717
not just one of connection,
but more so interconnection.
1450
01:29:51,918 --> 01:29:53,854
We used
to call this creature
1451
01:29:53,886 --> 01:29:55,555
"the loneliest whale
in the world,"
1452
01:29:56,155 --> 01:29:57,492
but after today,
1453
01:29:58,192 --> 01:30:01,429
he's better
known as 52.
1454
01:30:03,095 --> 01:30:05,532
And if you ever want
to find him,
1455
01:30:05,565 --> 01:30:08,469
all you have to do
is listen.
1456
01:30:08,502 --> 01:30:09,870
(WHALE SPOUTS)
1457
01:30:09,903 --> 01:30:13,474
(CAPTIVATING INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
1458
01:31:09,529 --> 01:31:10,797
(WHALE SPOUTS)
1459
01:31:15,269 --> 01:31:17,605
CALAMBOKIDIS: I have
at least 20 blue whales
1460
01:31:17,637 --> 01:31:18,972
feeding in this area.
1461
01:31:21,675 --> 01:31:24,479
Animals present
in all directions around us.
1462
01:31:37,123 --> 01:31:38,658
(WHALE SPOUTS)
1463
01:31:41,694 --> 01:31:43,563
Mother and calf
blue whale.
1464
01:31:54,173 --> 01:31:55,809
Can't tell if that's
him yet or not.
1465
01:31:55,841 --> 01:31:56,978
MAN: Yeah,
I don't know.
1466
01:31:58,744 --> 01:31:59,813
CALAMBOKIDIS:
Pretty light colored,
1467
01:31:59,845 --> 01:32:00,981
I don't think
that's him.
1468
01:32:03,850 --> 01:32:04,651
Oh, maybe.
1469
01:32:05,886 --> 01:32:08,255
- Any visual underwater?
- (WHALE SPOUTS)
1470
01:32:08,287 --> 01:32:09,890
- MAN: Definitely him.
- CALAMBOKIDIS: That's him.
1471
01:32:11,158 --> 01:32:13,861
That's our hybrid
surfacing right there.
1472
01:32:13,894 --> 01:32:15,195
(SPOUTING)
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That's our blue-fin hybrid
in the foreground.
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That's him.
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(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC RESUMES)
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https://twitter.com/kaboomskull
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(WHALE CALLING RHYTHMICALLY)
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