Listening to the Sea-Matt F

Listening to the sea…

A group of scientists from the university of Victoria in Vancouver Canada have ran a cable stretching 500miles out and back again to listen to the ocean’s animals and secrets, the US navy is not happy about this for reasons obvious. The wire runs from Vancouver Island out to connect a bunch of scientific instruments some as deep as 1.5miles the scientist are collecting huge amounts of information such as water pressure readings in hope to give them a better understanding of the world’s  oceans. But their microphones also pick up sounds from whales and shipping to the activity of the tectonic plates. It is also available to anyone with an internet connection. The scientists have placed the wire at the top of the Atlantic because of where the university is and that sound travels 5 times faster underwater so sound can travel for thousands of miles. The scientists have launched a website called listentothedeep.com which streams live sound from Vancouver and 14 other observatories across the world to your home PC. But for years the sounds of the deep sea have been observed purely by the military and were considered top secret during the cold war. The US NAVY struck a deal with the Vancouver scientists which allows the navy to censor any US NAVY operations or plans. During the cold war the US NAVY set up similar instruments across the sea bed to track soviet submarines and other possible threats to the US’ national state of security.