Humpback whale breaching

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- How do you find whales that dive so deep and spend so little time at the surface that some species have never been observed alive? Sometimes you just have to listen closely.

Thanks to a newly developed system of drifting buoys, scientists from NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center here in La Jolla, Calif., will have a much better chance of hearing beaked whales in their deep water habitat off the West Coast.

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