Index. Sounds of the sea: Listening online to the ocean floor. By Rhitu Chatterjee and Rob Hugh-Jones PRI's The World "The cable is going underneath here," says Benoit Pirenne, standing at the water's edge on Canada's Vancouver Island. "It's going out 500 miles (800km) in a big loop in the ocean, coming back in the same place. " The Vancouver cable connects a network of scientific instruments on the floor of the north Pacific, some as deep as 1.5 miles (2.5km). Set up by Pirenne and his colleagues at the University of Victoria, and called Neptune Canada, they continuously monitor the marine environment. Ocean floor listening posts in the north Pacific off Vancouver Island The scientists are harvesting large amounts of information, including water pressure readings that help them better understand the movement of tsunamis through oceans, which they hope will lead to more accurate warning systems.
But they are also listening. It's also now available to anyone else with an internet connection. Ocean 'ears' National security Widening the net. Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals. Vidéo : Témoignage croisé : Quiet Oceans – Technopôle Brest-Iroise / L'innovation par l'exemple / Accueil - Portail de l'innovation.