To finish off the year, we sent one of our WG's, Karpo, on a 12nm offshore around the Big Island journey as part of a collaborative study with Cascadia Research and NOAA in search of pilot whales in an alleged "no pilot whale zone" off the East side of the BI off Hilo. Karpo was streaming mp3 audio as well as archiving large WAV files. We had it hold station for a few days in the no zone area as well as over Loihi Sea Mount. The mission took 23 days. Data is being analyzed, so you will have to wait until 2015 for the results.
Karpo's 23 day pilot whale mission