High-tech drones prowling Atlantic waters may have found elusive whale habitat
HALIFAX — They are known as the leviathans of the sea — elusive giants that roam the waters of the eastern seaboard, sometimes hidden from scientists’ keen attempts to track them.
The rare North Atlantic right whale was known to have regular haunts off the East Coast, but researchers have struggled to figure out where the hulking mammals go when they’re not there.
Now, technology may be helping crack the case.
Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax have been using an arsenal of underwater gliders armed with voice recognition software to search and listen for right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and a long stretch of territory off Nova Scotia.