{"id":1872,"date":"2013-10-15T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T03:42:24","slug":"a-whale-in-the-sonar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"A Whale in the Sonar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The whale dove just in front of me, tail in the air as it slid below the surface.<\/p>\n

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A humpback whale appears in the sonar at over 100ft below the Nordic Quest<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a pretty sight, the huge tail silhouetted against the grey water. Satisfied that there was no danger of collision I continued on course. The whale was down, how far down I didn’t know, but well enough that I was not going to hit it.<\/p>\n

It was a minute or two later I got the answer. A large return showed up in the sonar display, a system designed to find fish found something considerably larger. A little over\u00a0 100 feet\u00a0down the whale passed through the cone of sound. The blob shows no features, in retrospect I wish I had changed the sonar mode to high frequency which gives better resolution, I normally keep it in low frequency while cruising as it has a larger cone.<\/p>\n

Still, I did see the whale in the display, something I had kept an eye out for previously, but never actually seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The whale dove just in front of me, tail in the air as it slid below the surface. It was a pretty sight, the huge tail silhouetted against the grey water. Satisfied that there was no danger of collision I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[139,8],"tags":[22,257,23],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2dWYW-uc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nordicquest.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}