A new scheme being run in conjunction with the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology allows internet users to listen to the sounds of the Shannon estuary and other bodies of water across the globe. Well, that’s one sure fire way to kill some time.
Have you ever had a hankering for listening to the sounds of the deep blue sea? No, neither have we. However, a new project being run between the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Clare-based Shannon Dolphin and Wildlife Foundation and the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics of the Technical University of Catalonia, lets you do just that.
Basically, the work involves monitoring ocean noise from a hydrophone installed in the estuary off the jetty at Tarbert power station in Co Kerry. But why would you want to do that in the first place, we hear you ask?
Well, the whole reasoning behind the hydrophone project is so that the researchers involved can monitor ocean noise throughout the world’s oceans, so they’ll be able to determine where the most noise polluted spots are in the world.
The sounds are recorded and posted online so you can go over to the listentothedeep.com website and listen to your favourite body of water. There are loads of different sounds to choose from, including the Nordic Sea and possibly our favourite, the West-Mediterranean Sea – only joking… the Azores is much, much better.
