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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

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JOHN CALAMBOKIDIS: (ON RADIO)
...I have that position.

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Uh, we have
a good deployment.

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Thirty-four degrees. 11.92.

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One-twenty degrees. 35.15.

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JOHN HILDEBRAND: Okay.
The whale we're tracking down

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is to the east of us.

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We're gonna move two miles
in that direction

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and we'll probably
put in a buoy over there.

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JOSHUA ZEMAN: In 1992,

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a top secret program
of the US Navy

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discovered a mysterious
sound in the Pacific

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at a frequency
of 52 hertz.

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A marine biologist named
Dr. William Watkins

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surmised this sound
was coming

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from a solitary whale,

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broadcasting at a frequency

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that no other whale
could understand.

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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

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It's been said that
this whale has spent

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its entire life swimming
through the oceans,

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calling out and never once
receiving a response.

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No one has heard
from this whale

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since the Navy
stopped listening

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over ten years ago.

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No one has ever
seen this whale.

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No one knows if he's the
first of his kind or the last.

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While many have
nicknamed this creature

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the Loneliest Whale
in the World...

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(WHALE SPOUTS)

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...there are those
that call him 52.

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(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)

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ZEMAN: So it all started
with this article

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about 52,
this lonely whale.

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This whale with
this mysterious call

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that just
couldn't communicate.

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It couldn't be heard.

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And I remember
having this reaction.

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You know, the hairs
on my arm just stood up.

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For some reason, this story,
it just spoke to me.

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So I went online to search
for more information,

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and as it turns out,

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it wasn't just me.

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WOMAN 1: A really sad story
from the animal kingdom.

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MAN 1: Legend has it
that 52 has been

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roaming the ocean
for decades

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entirely alone.

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MAN 2: 52 Hertz
has been nicknamed...

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WOMAN 2: The Loneliest
Whale in the World.

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WOMAN 3: It was on
a different migratory path

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from other whales.

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WOMAN 4: How do we
know the whale is a he?

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MAN 3:
Only the males sing.

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WOMAN 5: Is it a higher
or lower frequency?

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MAN 4: Higher.

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MAN 5: What is it
about this whale

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that has really moved
so many people?

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(WOMAN 6 SPEAKING SPANISH)

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MAN 6: It's artists,
it's filmmakers,

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it's scientists.

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What do you think it says
about us as people?

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(MAN 7 SPEAKS KOREAN)

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WOMAN 7: His isolation from
the incredibly social world

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of his fellow whales
speaks to so many right now.

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MAN 8: ...the loneliest
creature on Earth.

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(WOMAN 8 SPEAKS SPANISH)

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WOMAN 9: Absolutely,
how could it not be lonely?

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ZEMAN: 52 had become
this global phenomenon.

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This whale who embodied
the fascination

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we all have
for these gentle giants.

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You never forget your
first time seeing a whale.

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For me, I was a kid
working on a sailing ship.

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And the moment
I saw this whale

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leap out of the water,

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I felt like I was
in the presence

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of something
greater than myself.

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But this
mysterious fascination

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has always been there.

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We've always sought
the great whale,

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whether to slaughter it,
or now to save it.

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From Jonah,
who found redemption

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in the belly of a whale,

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to Captain Ahab, who found
the ultimate adversary

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in his hunt for a whale.

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These epic stories
are ingrained in our culture,

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in our consciousness.

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But what about this new
story of the lonely whale?

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Why did so many connect
with this one creature?

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Was it just this notion
of loneliness?

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Hmm... I don't know.

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All we know is
what he sounds like

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and where he's
possibly going.

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ZEMAN: And is that
his signature

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over there on the wall?
That's his signature.

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Wow.

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When we first detected 52
was back in '89.

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He is just like
a regular blue or fin whale,

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but the frequency he was,
you know,

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vocalizing at was
at the 52 hertz level,

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not, you know,
down around 20 hertz.

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(WHALE CALL PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)

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Now, we'd seen that signal
a couple times

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and we dismissed it
as being another source.

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ZEMAN: So what did
you think it was

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before you realized
it was a whale?

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That I can't tell you.

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ZEMAN: 30,
something classified?

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Something mechanical,
that's it.

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(AIRCRAFT TAKES OFF)

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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

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DAVID ROTHENBERG:
It was the beginnings

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of the Cold War
in the 19503.

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The American Navy
was doing everything possible

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to be one step ahead
of the Russians.

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And they decided they wanted
to listen underwater

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for what those Russian
submarines were up to.

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So we developed
this secret array

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of underwater microphones

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to listen to all the
sounds in the ocean.

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(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK)

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GEORGE: It was called
Sound Surveillance System.

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“SOSUS.“

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This was a 24-hour job,
365 days of the year.

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There is always
someone watching.

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ROTHENBERG: And they heard
all kinds of sounds.

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(CLICKING)

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It turned out most of them
came from whales.

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(WHALE VOCALIZING)

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CHRISTOPHER W. CLARK:
In those early days,

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we needed to understand
the difference

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between the sound
of a submarine

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and the voice print
of a whale.

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Most of the knowledge we have
about “whale song"

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is focused on
humpback whales.

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(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

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But then we have
blue whales and fin whales.

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They're infrasonic,

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below the auditory threshold
of human beings.

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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)

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ROTHENBERG: Blue whales sing
a very soft simple melody,

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but all around 100 hertz.

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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)

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Just a few low phrases, like,
<i>“Mmm. Mmm.“</i> That's it.

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No more variety
or structure than that.

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And here is the sound
of the fin whale.

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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)

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One sound, “Mmm,“

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then several minutes later,
again, “Mmm,“

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and exactly the same amount
of time later, “Mmm.”

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It's an exact,
regular rhythm.

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We have no idea how such
a whale could be so regular.

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(LOW-PITCHED RHYTHMIC
WHALE CALL PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

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CLARK: They sound
like a submarine.

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(LOW-PITCHED WHALE CALL
CONTINUES PLAYING)

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So this is where people
like Bill Watkins

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were asked by the Navy

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to catalogue what it is
we're listening to.

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DR. WILLIAM WATKINS: The
Navy would have a question

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about what they were hearing,

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what they were calling noise.

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And I was asked
to look at it.

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And I think that it's the same
rationale that I have today,

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is that if you're
going to be working

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with underwater sound
in the ocean,

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well, you ought a know
what's there.

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GEORGE: It was Bill Watkins

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who looked at
this one signature,

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and he says,
“This looks biologic."

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That's how we found it.
The 52 Hertz.

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So, we were able
to track him for 12 years.

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ZEMAN: And how did the rest
of the community react to 52?

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The rest
of the community, uh...

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There's a lot of
skepticism in it.

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Some people discredit it
as not being a whale.

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You know, why is he vocalizing
at this frequency

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and there's not another one
out there?

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A lot of skepticism in that
as to what this was.

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But, I think, to Bill Watkins,

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it was something unknown,
something to explore.

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He passed away in 2004.

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So, we went forth
and published a paper on it.

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We have never seen
another signature like that.

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And, you know,

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going through it,
I've looked all the time

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just seeing if there's
another one, at all.

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To see if, uh, you know...

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Just to see
if he's not the only one.

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And never seen
another one like it.

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ZEMAN: Did you guys ever
think about going out

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to actually try
and visually locate him?

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We'll say,
I thought about it,

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but I know Bill didn't,

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because he knew that, uh,

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it was a needle
in a haystack.

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For me, it was kind of,
like, a dream

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to go out there
and search for him,

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but also,
reality hitting in,

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knowing that the odds
of that are very slim.

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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

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GEORGE: We haven't
looked for him since 2003.

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ZEMAN: And what if somebody
went and looked for him now?

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Oh, my God,
that would be...

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Wow, (CHUCKLES) I mean,
couldn't even explain it,

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how great that would be.

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We have no idea what it is,
because we haven't seen it.

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And once you do that,

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you could solve
the mystery of the 52.

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(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)

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ZEMAN: Bill Watkins
helped solve

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some of the ocean's
greatest mysteries.

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He was a man who knew
that what we can hear

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is sometimes more powerful
than what we can see.

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Yet, tragically, he left
this one work unfinished.

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That of 52.

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This whale that we knew
so little about.

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And now 11 years later,
the myth has taken over.

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(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

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You know, we call him “the
loneliest whale in the world,“

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but was it really true?

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We invented this legend,

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because we didn't
have the truth.

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But what if we could
set the record straight?

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What if we can discover
whether this whale

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was really an anomaly,
or even a new species?

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No one has ever seen 52,
but what if we could?

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What if this was a mystery
we could solve?

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It's curiosity.
It's adventure.

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And it's a crazy idea.

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But this was a chance
to do something epic.

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To find one whale
in an entire ocean.

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To find 52.

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(PHONE LINE RINGING)

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Hey, Bruce,
my name is Josh Zeman.

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I'm a filmmaker
and I wanted to talk to you

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about mounting an expedition
to find the 52 Hertz Whale.

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(BRUCE SPEAKING)

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(BRUCE LAUGHING)

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There's 3,600 square miles
in this square.

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Three thousand miles
within one of these squares?

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Yeah.
And the animals are moving

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maybe 125 miles a day.

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Yeah. I mean,
they're going somewhere.

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(LAUGHS)

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I mean, Daniel and I
are used to looking

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at the things
that are stereotypical.

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We expected
atypical baleen whale

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to be going south
for the winter,

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and instead, if we look at
all the Joe George information,

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it went up into
the Gulf of Alaska.

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ZEMAN: What does an
expedition like this look like,

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in terms of details?

254
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We need to justify
the science, time, and money

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being spent on
this kind of a mission.

256
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That's why we need
to have more assurance

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that 52 Hertz is not only
still on schedule...

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ZEMAN: Mm-hmm.

259
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...but just that
it even lives.

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If we don't have that, we're
sort of shooting in the dark.

261
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And I wouldn't say
we have much of a chance.

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Maybe even as recently
as this year,

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the animal's passed away.

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ZEMAN:
While these large whales

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live on average
60 to 70 years,

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the only way to prove
52 is still alive

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is to hear him calling out,

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which means gaining access to
the classified SOSUS system.

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(LINE RINGING)

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Yet, after a year of
back and forth with the Navy,

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they refused to participate...

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(NAVAL OFFICER SPEAKING)

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ZEMAN: ...leading us
to Bob Dziak,

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a government scientist
who uses the SOSUS

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to study underwater volcanoes.

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(LOUD RUMBLING)

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Bob and his team
have agreed to help.

278
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(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)

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DZIAK: It's like you're
in the mouth of the whale.

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ASSISTANT: Yes.

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ZEMAN:
Doesn't really sound like

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we would think
a whale calls, right?

283
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Whale calls
often times are sped up

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because they're below
our threshold of hearing.

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DR. ANA SIROVIC:
Do you want to hear

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this one sped up
ten times?

287
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SARA HEIMLICH: Yeah.
SIROVIC: Okay.

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(HIGHER-PITCHED
RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL PLAYING)

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That's ten times.
ZEMAN: Wow.

290
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DZIAK: If that isn't
a call for <i>mama,</i>

291
00:17:16,869 --> 00:17:18,204
I don't know what is.

292
00:17:22,708 --> 00:17:24,669
(WHALE CALL CONTINUES
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

293
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HEIMLICH: This is from 1993.

294
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ZEMAN: That is 52 right there?
HEIMLICH: Yeah.

295
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ZEMAN: It's so difficult
to actually figure that out.

296
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HEIMLICH:
That's the challenge.

297
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ZEMAN: Yeah.
HEIMLICH: Right there.

298
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There's sort of an art
to listening to sound

299
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in the sea and being able
to pick it apart.

300
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Mechanical noise seems
to be just really consistent

301
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and very, uh,
what we call stereotypical.

302
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And so, biological sound,
sort of,

303
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has an unevenness
to it, in a way.

304
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But if there is a lot
of noise going around,

305
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it can be hard to pull out.

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WOMAN: Mm-hmm.
MAN: Yes.

307
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HEIMLICH: So, one of the
issues is that this part here

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looks to us like what a
52 hertz whale call could be,

309
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but we're not
getting clean data.

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There's other whale calls
going on,

311
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and so, it's hard to find
the 52 Hertz Whale

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in data that has lots of
other things going on in it.

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It will give me a time when it
thinks it's actually found...

314
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ZEMAN: False positives? Yeah.
False positives.

315
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And then
I actually have to go

316
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and look at
each false positive.

317
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ZEMAN: How many
false positives?

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Uh, on one phone,
I got 67,000 hits.

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ZEMAN: I'll be honest,
I was not going to go

320
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trying to do the film until
I could prove 100 percent

321
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that 52 is still alive.
Right.

322
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'Cause it's been ten years...
Right.

323
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ZEMAN: ...since you last
listened to him.

324
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Who knows what
can happen in ten years.

325
00:18:57,762 --> 00:18:59,764
So what's your gut tell you?

326
00:19:03,059 --> 00:19:04,727
Uh...

327
00:19:04,769 --> 00:19:05,853
I don't think
we're gonna find it

328
00:19:05,895 --> 00:19:08,189
in contemporary data,
to be honest.

329
00:19:09,273 --> 00:19:10,941
What does that mean?

330
00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:14,070
I'm not sure that that means
that it's not there.

331
00:19:14,111 --> 00:19:15,488
I think it's...

332
00:19:18,324 --> 00:19:20,117
I think you need to
go out and look for it.

333
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:21,535
If that's what
you really wanna do.

334
00:19:30,503 --> 00:19:32,755
(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

335
00:19:38,386 --> 00:19:40,888
ROTHENBERG: It's just one of those
things that's too hard to figure out.

336
00:19:42,598 --> 00:19:44,809
Till now, no one's bothered
to delve deeper

337
00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:47,311
into the mystery
of the 52 Hertz Whale.

338
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:49,397
(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

339
00:19:49,438 --> 00:19:53,401
The mere fact that a mystery
like this can still be around

340
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:57,571
just shows how wild and crazy
mysterious nature still is.

341
00:19:57,613 --> 00:20:00,282
We're still coming up
with things we can't explain.

342
00:20:04,412 --> 00:20:09,333
CLARK: The ocean is the last
great universe of exploration.

343
00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:12,628
It is the origin of life.

344
00:20:14,004 --> 00:20:17,883
How do we explore the ocean?
How do we understand it?

345
00:20:22,263 --> 00:20:23,723
CHRISTINA CONNETT:
There's that thrill.

346
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The thrill of discovery.

347
00:20:27,977 --> 00:20:30,146
The thrill of
the exploration itself.

348
00:20:32,732 --> 00:20:34,233
The thrill of the journey.

349
00:20:35,526 --> 00:20:37,194
To be a true explorer,

350
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you have to be willing
to put yourself at risk.

351
00:20:40,448 --> 00:20:42,533
And that has to be thrilling,

352
00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:44,535
or you're not going
to succeed with that.

353
00:20:46,370 --> 00:20:49,081
ROTHENBERG: Almost every
project involving whales

354
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has a little bit of
this aspect of Moby Dick.

355
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:54,086
This, kind of,
relentless obsession

356
00:20:54,128 --> 00:20:56,297
that's going to go nowhere,
towards disaster.

357
00:20:57,673 --> 00:21:00,426
Even contemplating whales
is to dare to,

358
00:21:00,468 --> 00:21:02,136
you know, to reach
toward greatness.

359
00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:05,306
To think about something
far more vast

360
00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:06,599
than humans could ever be.

361
00:21:09,059 --> 00:21:11,604
We should be going after
all great mysteries like this.

362
00:21:19,236 --> 00:21:21,405
(RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

363
00:21:23,115 --> 00:21:25,826
ZEMAN: We're all chasing
something.

364
00:21:25,868 --> 00:21:27,411
We all have
our own white whale.

365
00:21:28,579 --> 00:21:31,081
And mine was 52.

366
00:21:32,374 --> 00:21:34,293
(WHALE CALL CONTINUES PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)

367
00:21:34,335 --> 00:21:36,837
This whale who refused
to stop calling,

368
00:21:38,047 --> 00:21:40,466
who refused to stop
trying to connect.

369
00:21:44,011 --> 00:21:46,972
I guess that's why
I couldn't let it go.

370
00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:49,850
Not when there was still some
chance that he was out there.

371
00:21:51,352 --> 00:21:53,395
So I would keep listening,

372
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for however long it took.

373
00:22:06,367 --> 00:22:08,118
(PHONE LINE RINGING)

374
00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:10,287
HILDEBRAND: Hello?

375
00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:11,497
ZEMAN: Hey, John,
this is Josh Zeman.

376
00:22:11,539 --> 00:22:12,998
You left me
a message about

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00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,959
the 52 Hertz Whale
documentary.

378
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,211
HILDEBRAND: Yeah, thanks
for calling me back.

379
00:22:17,253 --> 00:22:20,381
So, we have a series
of recording sites

380
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that are off
the West Coast.

381
00:22:23,717 --> 00:22:27,346
Pretty coastal in close
to Southern California.

382
00:22:28,305 --> 00:22:30,182
And so, you know,
having heard

383
00:22:30,224 --> 00:22:32,434
about the 52 Hertz Whale
for a long time,

384
00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:34,603
I was kind of interested
in going through

385
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some of our recordings

386
00:22:36,272 --> 00:22:38,816
and seeing
if we could locate

387
00:22:38,858 --> 00:22:41,360
the 52 Hertz Whale.
Mm-hmm.

388
00:22:41,402 --> 00:22:44,530
Well, so I just
wanted to let you know

389
00:22:44,572 --> 00:22:45,906
that we found it.

390
00:22:45,948 --> 00:22:47,908
Wait, wait, wait,
wait, when was this?

391
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This is all recent.

392
00:22:49,285 --> 00:22:51,287
The last
couple years OI" SO.

393
00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:52,788
In the Gulf of Alaska?

394
00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:54,915
No, we found it

395
00:22:54,957 --> 00:22:57,084
along the coast
here in California.

396
00:22:58,502 --> 00:23:00,629
So, it's...
30, it's still alive?

397
00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:03,966
Yup.
It's out there.

398
00:23:05,217 --> 00:23:07,177
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)

399
00:23:15,644 --> 00:23:17,813
(SQUAWKING)

400
00:23:17,855 --> 00:23:19,189
ZEMAN: After more
than four years

401
00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:21,066
of planning and preparation,

402
00:23:21,108 --> 00:23:26,488
we launched our expedition in
search of the 52 Hertz Whale.

403
00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,157
While we only
had enough support

404
00:23:28,198 --> 00:23:29,909
for a seven-day mission,

405
00:23:29,950 --> 00:23:32,661
we still had some of the best
scientists in the world

406
00:23:32,703 --> 00:23:34,538
to help us.

407
00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:35,998
HILDEBRAND:
My name is John Hildebrand.

408
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,500
I'm a professor at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography

409
00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:40,753
at University of California,
San Diego.

410
00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:43,047
I'm gonna be leading
the acoustics effort

411
00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:46,091
on our search
for the 52 Hertz Whale.

412
00:23:46,842 --> 00:23:48,761
ZEMAN:
What's in the box?

413
00:23:48,802 --> 00:23:51,805
HILDEBRAND: Sonobuoys.
ZEMAN: Wow, they're heavy.

414
00:23:51,847 --> 00:23:54,683
Yeah, the box
is about 1,000 pounds.

415
00:23:54,725 --> 00:23:56,727
So, these will
basically listen

416
00:23:56,769 --> 00:23:58,687
for the 52 hertz signal

417
00:23:58,729 --> 00:23:59,939
and kind of tell you where

418
00:23:59,980 --> 00:24:01,649
the direction of that...
where that is?

419
00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:03,067
Well, if you have
two of 'em. Yeah.

420
00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:04,818
From this one,
it has this direction

421
00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:06,236
and this one
has this direction,

422
00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:08,322
you can cross the bearings
and you know where it is.

423
00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:09,782
Triangulate instantly.
Right.

424
00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:12,493
ZEMAN: And they used to use
these to look for submarines,

425
00:24:12,534 --> 00:24:14,620
and now we're using it
to find a whale.

426
00:24:14,662 --> 00:24:16,789
Yes. They've been retired
from the Navy,

427
00:24:16,830 --> 00:24:19,166
and now we're using them
for working on whales.

428
00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:20,751
So it's kind of a nice gift.

429
00:24:23,629 --> 00:24:25,673
We want to find it,

430
00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:28,884
one whale,
but it's a big ocean,

431
00:24:28,926 --> 00:24:32,429
so if we're gonna find it,
we need help.

432
00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:34,640
Hello.
Hello.

433
00:24:34,682 --> 00:24:37,017
Hey, Ana.
Hi.

434
00:24:37,059 --> 00:24:39,728
JOHN CALAMBOKIDIS: I'm John
Calambokidis. I'm a research biologist

435
00:24:39,770 --> 00:24:41,563
and I've been
studying blue whales

436
00:24:41,605 --> 00:24:42,648
for about 35 years.

437
00:24:42,690 --> 00:24:43,857
Here we are.

438
00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:45,192
CALAMBOKIDIS:
I kind of recognized

439
00:24:45,234 --> 00:24:48,404
it was a huge challenge
to do this.

440
00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:50,948
I mean, I go out and try
to find blue whales

441
00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,617
and there are 2,000 of 'em
on the West Coast,

442
00:24:53,659 --> 00:24:56,036
and sometimes
that's a challenge.

443
00:24:56,078 --> 00:24:59,832
Now we're talking about
finding maybe one.

444
00:24:59,873 --> 00:25:02,042
But any scientist
would be captivated

445
00:25:02,084 --> 00:25:05,004
by the opportunity
to solve that mystery.

446
00:25:07,006 --> 00:25:10,259
So, John Hildebrand called me
six months ago and he said,

447
00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:11,593
“I can't think of anyone
better than you

448
00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:12,678
“that could do this.

449
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,179
“I could do the acoustics,

450
00:25:14,221 --> 00:25:16,056
“you got all
the boat experience.

451
00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:18,726
“We could do this together
and maybe learn a few things."

452
00:25:18,767 --> 00:25:20,227
...around this area.
Yeah.

453
00:25:20,269 --> 00:25:22,855
And that's when I said,
"I'm in."

454
00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:31,238
HILDEBRAND: It's more
than just curiosity.

455
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:35,492
People assume that we know
more than we actually do.

456
00:25:36,702 --> 00:25:38,704
There's the bit we can see,

457
00:25:38,746 --> 00:25:41,498
whatever's happening
on the surface.

458
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:45,210
But then there's the 95
percent that we can't see.

459
00:25:46,879 --> 00:25:49,006
There's just so much
we don't know.

460
00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:58,766
In 2004, we came right
out here, off San Miguel,

461
00:25:58,807 --> 00:26:01,393
and we encountered a big
group of blue and fin whales,

462
00:26:01,435 --> 00:26:03,395
and in amongst them,
paired with a blue whale,

463
00:26:03,437 --> 00:26:07,024
was this whale that looked
in between the two.

464
00:26:07,066 --> 00:26:08,358
So we got a skin sample,

465
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,444
we had that
genetically analyzed.

466
00:26:10,486 --> 00:26:12,863
Fifty-fifty hybrid between
blue and fin whales.

467
00:26:12,905 --> 00:26:14,782
Could that have been
the 52 Hertz Whale?

468
00:26:14,823 --> 00:26:17,826
It could have been. It
could have been that whale.

469
00:26:19,286 --> 00:26:20,329
Wow. That's...

470
00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:22,664
And at that time,
we weren't linking

471
00:26:22,706 --> 00:26:24,416
any of that in any way.

472
00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:32,049
MAN: Yeah, that'd be awesome.

473
00:26:34,468 --> 00:26:36,220
(STATIC HISSING)

474
00:26:42,684 --> 00:26:43,936
CAPTAIN DAVEY: So,
talk to me about the back.

475
00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:45,229
If it looks good,
I'll keep going.

476
00:26:45,270 --> 00:26:46,563
MAN: You're good, yeah.
All right, here we go.

477
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,148
All right, guys, coming down.

478
00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:51,735
ZEMAN: That crane's
coin operated?

479
00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:53,904
It is coin operated.

480
00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:11,171
It has begun.

481
00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:35,070
So we had,
just purely out of curiosity,

482
00:27:35,112 --> 00:27:37,239
we assigned an intern

483
00:27:37,281 --> 00:27:41,118
to look for what we're going
to refer to as Watkins' whale.

484
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,661
And there are four sites

485
00:27:42,703 --> 00:27:45,622
where she can pick out
this unusual call.

486
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:47,958
At Hoke Sea mount,
which is far offshore,

487
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,711
which is where Watkins
described it before.

488
00:27:50,752 --> 00:27:52,212
ZEMAN: Mm-hmm.
HILDEBRAND: But she found it

489
00:27:52,254 --> 00:27:53,964
at Point Conception,

490
00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:56,133
she found it at Palos Verdes,

491
00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:57,509
and she found it
off of La Jolla.

492
00:27:57,551 --> 00:28:00,804
So, these are
relatively coastal.

493
00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:01,889
ZEMAN: But how come
we wouldn't

494
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:04,057
have known this before?

495
00:28:04,099 --> 00:28:06,393
Well, it's just that
there's a new dimension,

496
00:28:06,435 --> 00:28:08,395
beyond what Bill knew,

497
00:28:08,437 --> 00:28:12,691
that the whale actually does
come in coastally. Right?

498
00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:16,570
And here we are
in the Santa Barbara Channel,

499
00:28:16,612 --> 00:28:17,946
and the whale is there.

500
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:21,617
We find, pretty consistently,

501
00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:24,453
both at site C and site B,

502
00:28:24,494 --> 00:28:27,956
that there are these calls
in October.

503
00:28:27,998 --> 00:28:29,041
ZEMAN: So, if we
have any chance

504
00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,251
of finding this animal,
it's right now?

505
00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:34,379
Yep, we're in the right time
and the right place.

506
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:36,381
Right.

507
00:28:38,926 --> 00:28:40,385
ZEMAN: So, where is it?

508
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:41,929
(BOTH LAUGH)

509
00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:43,764
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

510
00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:51,980
ZEMAN: While 52 may be alone,
according to our scientists,

511
00:28:52,022 --> 00:28:55,901
he wasn't as isolated
as the legend suggested.

512
00:28:57,277 --> 00:28:59,488
Chances are he was following
other whales

513
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,865
migrating up and down
the West Coast.

514
00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:04,076
And stopping
along Point Conception

515
00:29:04,117 --> 00:29:05,869
to forage for food.

516
00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:10,040
And it wasn't that
other whales couldn't hear 52,

517
00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:14,795
they just couldn't understand
what he was saying,

518
00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:17,464
leaving this whale
the perennial outsider.

519
00:29:17,506 --> 00:29:18,966
(LOW-PITCHED WHALE CALL)

520
00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:22,094
Yet, it was also
the uniqueness of 52's call

521
00:29:22,135 --> 00:29:25,013
that just may lead us
right to him.

522
00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:26,765
(WHALE SPOUTS)

523
00:29:26,807 --> 00:29:30,519
HILDEBRAND: So, if you want
to find the 52 Hertz Whale,

524
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,437
there are two parts to this.

525
00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:35,857
First, we have
a bio acoustic team,

526
00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:40,070
real-time listening
using the sonobuoys.

527
00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,365
So when we hear
the 52 hertz sound,

528
00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:45,909
we can say, “This is the spot
where that sound came from.

529
00:29:45,951 --> 00:29:48,745
“Let's go over
and investigate."

530
00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:50,747
Then we're going to have
to have a small boat

531
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:54,001
that approaches the animal.
That's John C.

532
00:29:54,042 --> 00:29:55,085
(CAMERA CLICKING)

533
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:56,336
He'll take their picture,

534
00:29:56,378 --> 00:29:59,506
get a skin sample,
attach a tag.

535
00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:02,509
So, that's the plan.

536
00:30:03,844 --> 00:30:05,929
Bridge, do we have
a go-ahead to deploy?

537
00:30:05,971 --> 00:30:08,348
(CAPTAIN DAVEY SPEAKING)

538
00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:14,187
SIROVIC: Kind of, uh,
northeasterly course.

539
00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:15,605
(CAPTAIN DAVEY SPEAKING)

540
00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:22,571
(VESSELS CLANKING)

541
00:30:27,242 --> 00:30:28,535
HILDEBRAND: Okay,
I'm going to go deep.

542
00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:29,661
SIROVIC: Roger that.

543
00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:33,040
(BEEPING)

544
00:30:33,081 --> 00:30:34,249
HILDEBRAND:
You ready for this?

545
00:30:43,008 --> 00:30:45,510
They say, uh, you know
you're doing oceanography

546
00:30:45,552 --> 00:30:47,304
when what you have
is too heavy to lift,

547
00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:49,056
and too expensive to lose,

548
00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,141
and then you throw it
in the ocean anyways.

549
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:23,548
(HILDEBRAND SPEAKING)

550
00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:47,280
(PLAYING NOTES)

551
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:50,700
(MUFFLED CLARINET PLAYING)

552
00:31:57,457 --> 00:32:00,627
(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL)

553
00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:04,464
(WHALE VOCALIZING
IN HIGH PITCH)

554
00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:06,591
ROTHENBERG: I first heard
about the 52 Hertz Whale

555
00:32:06,633 --> 00:32:08,718
in an article
in The New York Times.

556
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,679
The idea that
there's a species of whale

557
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,141
making a sound that no one
has ever heard before.

558
00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:16,059
It's an amazing tale
of craziness.

559
00:32:16,101 --> 00:32:18,311
(CLARINET MELODY)

560
00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:24,609
(WHALE VOCALIZING)

561
00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:26,736
I've traveled around the world
making music,

562
00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,822
trying to jam together
with whales.

563
00:32:28,864 --> 00:32:30,490
'Cause I really believe
you can use music

564
00:32:30,532 --> 00:32:32,325
to get in touch
with other species,

565
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:35,036
to communicate in a way
where language fails.

566
00:32:36,413 --> 00:32:39,791
(CLARINET AND WHALE'S SOUNDS
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

567
00:32:39,833 --> 00:32:42,169
There he really
seems to respond to me,

568
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:45,881
and now he almost
matches my note.

569
00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:48,675
(CLARINET AND WHALE'S SOUNDS
CONTINUE PLAYING)

570
00:32:48,717 --> 00:32:50,260
Right there.

571
00:32:51,511 --> 00:32:53,346
To play along with whale song,

572
00:32:53,388 --> 00:32:55,807
the sense that humans
really can touch

573
00:32:55,849 --> 00:32:59,853
upon something very mysterious
that we barely understand.

574
00:32:59,895 --> 00:33:02,022
We're in awe
of what happens in the sea.

575
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:07,944
The idea that there's
a mystery noise underwater.

576
00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:10,989
52 hertz. It's a sound

577
00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:12,741
that's not like anything else
we know.

578
00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:15,494
It's amazing and fascinating

579
00:33:15,535 --> 00:33:16,745
to think that
even in this day,

580
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:18,455
we're listening
all over the ocean,

581
00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:20,916
we're still hearing things
that we cannot explain.

582
00:33:23,668 --> 00:33:26,213
(HIGH-PITCHED WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

583
00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:27,672
DR. ROGER PAYNE:
When you look at the sea,

584
00:33:27,714 --> 00:33:30,050
you're looking
at a vast mystery.

585
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:32,302
(WHALE CALL CONTINUES PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)

586
00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:37,641
What we have to learn to do
is to listen.

587
00:33:41,061 --> 00:33:45,232
Sound in the ocean
travels huge distances.

588
00:33:45,273 --> 00:33:47,734
It is propagated much better

589
00:33:47,776 --> 00:33:50,737
through water
than through air.

590
00:33:50,779 --> 00:33:52,739
(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL
PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

591
00:33:52,781 --> 00:33:55,492
The sounds
of fin and blue whales

592
00:33:55,534 --> 00:33:58,370
could travel
about 13,000 miles.

593
00:34:00,413 --> 00:34:02,541
In fact,
if you were listening,

594
00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:06,169
and you had a proper ear,
as whales do,

595
00:34:06,211 --> 00:34:08,004
you would be able
to hear things

596
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:10,382
that are completely
across oceans.

597
00:34:11,758 --> 00:34:12,926
CLARK: Water is dense,

598
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:17,305
so sound travels
almost five times faster.

599
00:34:19,224 --> 00:34:22,686
And the lower
the pitch of your voice,

600
00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:24,854
the more efficiently
it travels.

601
00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:27,691
Think of this,

602
00:34:29,693 --> 00:34:33,071
the song of a whale,
the wavelength of that song,

603
00:34:33,113 --> 00:34:36,449
stretches one football field.

604
00:34:38,952 --> 00:34:42,747
A note, by the time
it's finished,

605
00:34:42,789 --> 00:34:45,125
has traveled 30 miles,

606
00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:48,545
so everything is expanded.

607
00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:52,591
You have to take your mind
and just stretch it.

608
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:58,054
PAYNE: The whole ocean
is illuminated

609
00:34:58,096 --> 00:34:59,806
by the sounds of the whale,

610
00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:03,560
shining its flashlight around,

611
00:35:03,602 --> 00:35:07,188
figuring out
what's all around it.

612
00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:10,317
It just happens to be sound,
not light, that it's using.

613
00:35:15,697 --> 00:35:18,408
(WHALES CALLING)

614
00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:23,872
CLARK: This is
a long-range social network.

615
00:35:25,999 --> 00:35:28,209
Humpback whales, for example,

616
00:35:29,336 --> 00:35:31,421
they have notes,
they have phrases,

617
00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:33,465
they have themes,
they have songs,

618
00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:36,468
like a musical composition.

619
00:35:38,011 --> 00:35:40,972
(WHALE CALLING RHYTHMICAL LY)

620
00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:46,853
PAYNE: They're beautiful,

621
00:35:48,188 --> 00:35:51,858
but it turns out
that these whales,

622
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:53,818
after about 10 minutes,

623
00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:56,988
start repeating themselves.

624
00:35:59,115 --> 00:36:01,910
(RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL
CONTINUES)

625
00:36:04,829 --> 00:36:06,998
The first thought
you have, of course, is,

626
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,375
“Oh, my gosh,
what do they mean?“

627
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:09,626
That's what
you want to know.

628
00:36:11,628 --> 00:36:14,422
CLARK: They have dialects.

629
00:36:14,464 --> 00:36:19,302
A social mechanism
for identifying who they are.

630
00:36:19,344 --> 00:36:21,805
(WHALES CALLING)

631
00:36:23,264 --> 00:36:26,059
When you watch and you listen
to these animals

632
00:36:26,101 --> 00:36:28,436
communicating
or moving as a herd

633
00:36:28,478 --> 00:36:32,273
over hundreds of...
thousands of square miles.

634
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:35,318
They move often
in a very coordinated fashion.

635
00:36:36,820 --> 00:36:39,739
All mediated
through their voices.

636
00:36:41,116 --> 00:36:42,617
These animals are in sync

637
00:36:42,659 --> 00:36:44,869
with huge areas
of time and space.

638
00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:48,790
We are just scratching
the surface

639
00:36:48,832 --> 00:36:52,794
in terms of the complexity of
their communications system.

640
00:36:52,836 --> 00:36:55,505
(LOW-PITCHED
RHYTHMIC WHALE CALL)

641
00:36:57,549 --> 00:36:59,217
So you can imagine.

642
00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:03,596
Here's this whale,
it makes a very strange sound

643
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:06,099
and if there's nothing
out there...

644
00:37:06,141 --> 00:37:08,059
I mean, blue whales
are not going to respond

645
00:37:08,101 --> 00:37:09,352
to this 52 hertz sound,

646
00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:11,604
and fin whales
aren't going to respond,

647
00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:13,440
so who does respond?

648
00:37:15,859 --> 00:37:17,819
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

649
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:21,948
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

650
00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:23,783
MAN: ...first deployment.
WOMAN: Roger that.

651
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:25,368
WOMAN 2: We'll give you
some feedback in a second.

652
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:29,038
HILDEBRAND: So, we're looking

653
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,790
for an animal
that's really rare.

654
00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:33,877
And we think
that the 52 Hertz,

655
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:36,463
it's a lot like a blue whale.

656
00:37:36,504 --> 00:37:37,547
It's probably
not a blue whale,

657
00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:39,132
but it's a lot like
a blue whale,

658
00:37:39,174 --> 00:37:41,468
so if we go out and find
concentrations of blue whales,

659
00:37:41,509 --> 00:37:43,052
that's a pretty good place
to start.

660
00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:50,393
CALAMBOKIDIS: It's been
kind of a question

661
00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:52,437
kicking around
among whale researchers

662
00:37:52,479 --> 00:37:54,898
ever since first described
by Bill Watkins.

663
00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:58,485
Was this some
new type of whale?

664
00:37:59,861 --> 00:38:01,488
We didn't really know.

665
00:38:03,114 --> 00:38:05,992
But I've been very interested
in the question of hybrids

666
00:38:06,034 --> 00:38:07,494
between blue and fin whales.

667
00:38:08,787 --> 00:38:11,164
So, the interesting question
has been,

668
00:38:11,206 --> 00:38:13,166
“Could the 52 Hertz Whale

669
00:38:13,208 --> 00:38:15,502
“be some hybrid
of the two species?“

670
00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:22,509
I heard about 52 Hertz
from Watkins.

671
00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:25,178
But he wasn't willing
to speculate much

672
00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:27,889
on what the whale was.

673
00:38:27,931 --> 00:38:30,058
I remember when I reviewed
the paper, I said,

674
00:38:30,099 --> 00:38:32,018
“Well, you know,
you should describe,

675
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:33,812
“how is it similar
to blue whales,

676
00:38:33,853 --> 00:38:35,021
“how is it similar
to fin whales,

677
00:38:35,063 --> 00:38:37,148
“maybe it's some combination."

678
00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:39,567
I was trying to get him
to push a little bit

679
00:38:39,609 --> 00:38:40,902
on the theory
of “What is this?“

680
00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:42,237
But he wouldn't go there.

681
00:38:43,822 --> 00:38:45,490
CALAMBOKIDIS: I think
if we can tag this whale,

682
00:38:45,532 --> 00:38:48,785
and photograph,
collect samples,

683
00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:51,162
maybe we can
figure out an answer

684
00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:53,164
to identify
the 52 Hertz Whale.

685
00:38:54,207 --> 00:38:55,625
This is step one.

686
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:05,969
ZEMAN: Outside of hearing 52,
our best chance of finding him

687
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:08,721
was to look
for concentrations of whales,

688
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:09,806
all feeding together.

689
00:39:11,558 --> 00:39:15,603
Which meant tagging as many
fin whales, blue whales,

690
00:39:15,645 --> 00:39:17,605
and even humpbacks
as possible,

691
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:23,736
in hopes one will lead us
to these large groups,

692
00:39:23,778 --> 00:39:27,407
all feasting in these
nutrient-rich waters

693
00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:31,786
where we might hear,
or even see 52 among them.

694
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:44,549
MAN: You wanna tag five again?
CALAMBOKIDIS: Uh, yeah.

695
00:39:44,591 --> 00:39:46,426
Some of the tags
that we're talking about

696
00:39:46,467 --> 00:39:48,136
have never been
deployed before.

697
00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:49,846
We are miniaturizing
the cameras

698
00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:52,432
that go on these
small instruments,

699
00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:54,684
adding these high sampling
rate accelerometers

700
00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:57,061
that can detect
if the call is coming

701
00:39:57,103 --> 00:39:58,813
from the animal
it's attached to.

702
00:40:00,064 --> 00:40:02,734
These are brand-new
pieces of technology

703
00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:04,068
we're bringing to bear.

704
00:40:13,870 --> 00:40:15,121
Yep, sounds good.

705
00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,332
(ZEMAN SPEAKING)

706
00:40:20,335 --> 00:40:21,711
We're hearing them.

707
00:40:21,753 --> 00:40:24,380
There you 90.
That's a nice one.

708
00:40:25,757 --> 00:40:27,967
SIROVIC:
It's a blue whale call.

709
00:40:28,009 --> 00:40:30,011
MAN ON RADIO: Truth boat
preparing to launch drone.

710
00:40:31,304 --> 00:40:32,263
Drone is in the air.

711
00:40:35,183 --> 00:40:36,935
CALAMBOKIDIS: Okay, let's go.

712
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:42,941
There they are.

713
00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:45,193
(WHALE SPOUTING)

714
00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:48,821
(CAMERA CLICKING)

715
00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:57,163
Not really totally sure
what this animal's doing.

716
00:40:57,205 --> 00:40:59,457
It's been alternating,
seemingly holding

717
00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:01,918
a little bit of a westerly
traveling course.

718
00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:06,339
Uh, starting to get
just a little nervous.

719
00:41:07,423 --> 00:41:08,841
Maybe we've lost this whale.

720
00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:11,636
Maybe we should spread our
boats out a little bit more

721
00:41:11,678 --> 00:41:14,097
to guard against
a change of direction.

722
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,439
MAN ON RADIO: We got a visual.

723
00:41:24,524 --> 00:41:25,650
Downwind.

724
00:41:33,658 --> 00:41:35,034
CALAMBOKIDIS:
What's our range?

725
00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:36,411
MAN: 150 meters.

726
00:41:38,579 --> 00:41:40,248
(ENGINE ACCELERATES)

727
00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:46,004
(ENGINE STOPS)

728
00:41:56,556 --> 00:41:59,892
Damn, that was so close.
Yeah, that was really close.

729
00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:07,567
Yeah.

730
00:42:12,613 --> 00:42:14,615
(LOW MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

731
00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:21,372
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

732
00:42:30,882 --> 00:42:32,508
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

733
00:42:34,635 --> 00:42:36,637
MAN: Good ship's on its way.

734
00:42:39,849 --> 00:42:42,310
What I'm able to do
is pull data

735
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:44,771
from the copter
while it's flying,

736
00:42:44,812 --> 00:42:47,690
and it will tell you
the GPS location

737
00:42:47,732 --> 00:42:49,567
as that
down to the second.

738
00:42:49,609 --> 00:42:50,735
Time stamp...

739
00:42:50,777 --> 00:42:52,111
Time wise, which is synced
with your GPS.

740
00:42:52,153 --> 00:42:53,780
CALAMBOKIDIS: It is. Okay.

741
00:42:53,821 --> 00:42:55,364
And can you
keep playing it ahead?

742
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:57,325
Because my recollection, too,
is he did a series of breaths.

743
00:42:58,201 --> 00:42:59,994
MAN: Here we go.

744
00:43:00,036 --> 00:43:02,872
(LOW-PITCHED RHYTHMIC
WHALE CALL PLAYING ON SPEAKER)

745
00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:18,387
I think this is the first time
that you guys have caught,

746
00:43:18,429 --> 00:43:20,473
on a drone from the air,
a blue whale

747
00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:23,309
in the act of calling
and known it.

748
00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:26,187
You're usually not combining
these two mediums.

749
00:43:26,229 --> 00:43:29,524
And we know they call
not right at the surface,

750
00:43:29,565 --> 00:43:31,818
but slightly submerged.

751
00:43:31,859 --> 00:43:33,611
So, this is
totally consistent

752
00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:34,737
with the behavior
of them calling.

753
00:43:41,285 --> 00:43:44,747
ZEMAN: If 52 was with
other large groups of whales,

754
00:43:44,789 --> 00:43:48,209
our drones could now help us
single him out from the crowd.

755
00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:53,172
Yet, despite having
all this new technology,

756
00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:56,968
we still hadn't heard
52's mysterious call.

757
00:43:57,009 --> 00:43:59,178
A call that could be echoing
through the ocean depths

758
00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:01,597
right at this very moment.

759
00:44:01,639 --> 00:44:03,724
Just waiting to be heard.

760
00:44:10,940 --> 00:44:13,818
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)

761
00:44:13,860 --> 00:44:17,530
ROTHENBERG: So imagine
yourself in the 16th century

762
00:44:19,073 --> 00:44:22,118
on a big sailing boat
crossing the ocean.

763
00:44:26,164 --> 00:44:29,417
And you're in a bunk
below the water line

764
00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:32,378
and your head
is on a wooden board

765
00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:34,505
connected to the hull
of that ship.

766
00:44:39,010 --> 00:44:43,055
You would hear
the voices of whales.

767
00:44:43,097 --> 00:44:45,558
(WHALES CALLING)

768
00:44:46,976 --> 00:44:48,978
You would hear
singing humpbacks.

769
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,147
(WHALE VOCALIZING
IN HIGH PITCH)

770
00:44:51,189 --> 00:44:53,274
You would hear
the “click, click“ clicking

771
00:44:53,316 --> 00:44:55,067
of sperm whales.

772
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:57,111
(MUFFLED CLICKING)

773
00:44:57,153 --> 00:44:59,197
And it was probably
a little terrifying,

774
00:44:59,238 --> 00:45:00,823
because you had no idea

775
00:45:00,865 --> 00:45:02,992
what it was
that you were listening to.

776
00:45:05,912 --> 00:45:07,580
Those stories exist.

777
00:45:07,622 --> 00:45:10,249
The siren song
of the ocean exists

778
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:14,420
from the earliest historical
musings of mankind.

779
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,509
And then suddenly,
we are immersed in a world

780
00:45:22,136 --> 00:45:24,972
where we decided
to kill whales.

781
00:45:25,014 --> 00:45:26,974
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

782
00:45:30,937 --> 00:45:33,064
You know, whales were
important to human beings

783
00:45:33,105 --> 00:45:34,523
in the 19th century,

784
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:36,192
when whale oil was lighting up

785
00:45:36,234 --> 00:45:38,027
all of
the industrial revolution.

786
00:45:39,779 --> 00:45:42,406
And whales used to be
the main source of oil.

787
00:45:42,448 --> 00:45:44,909
For all lamps.
For all lubrication.

788
00:45:46,327 --> 00:45:48,079
It was big business
killing whales.

789
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,041
And even as petroleum
was discovered,

790
00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:53,709
we didn't really need
all of this whale oil,

791
00:45:53,751 --> 00:45:55,253
but we kept on killing them.

792
00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:56,587
The momentum was there.

793
00:45:56,629 --> 00:45:59,465
We kept on killing,
kept on killing.

794
00:45:59,507 --> 00:46:02,134
GRAHAM BURNETT: We're not
talking about the heroic guy

795
00:46:02,176 --> 00:46:04,387
in the front of a boat
with a spear, no.

796
00:46:05,221 --> 00:46:06,847
We're talking about

797
00:46:06,889 --> 00:46:10,518
the floating factory vessels
with that stern slipway

798
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:12,770
that could draw
an entire whale up

799
00:46:12,812 --> 00:46:14,814
into the body of the ship.

800
00:46:14,855 --> 00:46:16,315
And not only are they using

801
00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:19,860
explosive ordnance
in those harpoon darts...

802
00:46:19,902 --> 00:46:22,405
Before it can sink,
they pierce the animal

803
00:46:22,446 --> 00:46:25,241
with a hypodermic tube

804
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:26,867
that's attached
to an air compressor,

805
00:46:26,909 --> 00:46:28,452
inflate the animal
so it's turned

806
00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:31,580
into a kind of corpse buoy.

807
00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:34,542
And it's not an assembly line,
it's a disassembly line

808
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:37,753
for the rendering
of corpse after corpse.

809
00:46:38,879 --> 00:46:41,007
Those ships could process

810
00:46:41,048 --> 00:46:44,176
dozens of animals
in a matter of hours.

811
00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:46,178
(GUNSHOT)

812
00:46:46,220 --> 00:46:47,722
(WHALE GROANING)

813
00:46:49,807 --> 00:46:53,185
ROTHENBERG: By the 19605,
almost all the large whales,

814
00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:55,646
the blue whales,
the fin whales, the humpbacks,

815
00:46:55,688 --> 00:46:57,189
almost all of them were gone.

816
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:06,032
And this all began to change

817
00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:08,617
after a young biologist
named Roger Payne

818
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:11,078
started listening to the song
of the humpback whale.

819
00:47:12,997 --> 00:47:16,542
PAYNE: The public knew nothing
about whales at the time.

820
00:47:18,044 --> 00:47:20,546
I mean, scientists knew
that they made sounds.

821
00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:25,885
...20 seconds time...

822
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:29,513
We'd heard, you know,
a few sounds from a few whales

823
00:47:29,555 --> 00:47:32,850
and they were interesting
and, sort of, groovy.

824
00:47:32,892 --> 00:47:36,771
But I was in Bermuda
listening for whales

825
00:47:36,812 --> 00:47:41,567
and what we heard
was completely different.

826
00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:47,323
(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

827
00:47:54,830 --> 00:47:57,124
(WHALE BELLOWING)

828
00:48:01,253 --> 00:48:03,547
(WHALES CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

829
00:48:05,424 --> 00:48:08,177
(BELLOWING LOWLY)

830
00:48:10,262 --> 00:48:13,432
(HIGH-PITCHED CALLING
CONTINUES)

831
00:48:18,229 --> 00:48:21,023
(WHALE CALLING IN LOWER PITCH)

832
00:48:21,065 --> 00:48:24,026
(HIGH AND LOWER-PITCHED CALLS
CONTINUE IN SUCCESSION)

833
00:48:28,114 --> 00:48:31,158
(BELLOWING)

834
00:48:36,288 --> 00:48:38,916
(WHALES CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

835
00:48:46,173 --> 00:48:49,301
PAYNE: It was an extremely
emotional experience.

836
00:48:51,011 --> 00:48:53,722
I thought, “My God,
if that won't get the world

837
00:48:53,764 --> 00:48:55,808
“interested in whales,
nothing will.“

838
00:49:00,479 --> 00:49:03,274
So, I had a close friend
who was making records.

839
00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:07,653
And I said, (LAUGHING)
<i>“How</i> would you like to make

840
00:49:07,695 --> 00:49:09,822
“a record of
humpback whales singing?"

841
00:49:11,824 --> 00:49:14,994
And he said, “Sure!"

842
00:49:15,035 --> 00:49:17,163
ROTHENBERG: And it just
became amazingly popular.

843
00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:21,000
Everyone had to have a copy.

844
00:49:22,668 --> 00:49:24,670
It was
a multi-platinum record.

845
00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:29,467
Bestselling nature
recording of all time.

846
00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,719
And then
National Geographic said,

847
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,972
“We want
10 and a half million copies.“

848
00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:37,933
Which is the largest single
print order

849
00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:39,894
in the history of
the recording industry.

850
00:49:41,687 --> 00:49:43,439
The world realized...

851
00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:44,940
(WHALE CALL PLAYING
ON SPEAKER)

852
00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:46,775
...they sing,

853
00:49:46,817 --> 00:49:49,528
and when you found out
that they sing,

854
00:49:49,570 --> 00:49:50,988
everything changed.

855
00:49:51,030 --> 00:49:53,199
The world changed
around them.

856
00:49:55,701 --> 00:49:59,580
BURNETT: Whale song reads as
the presence of intelligence.

857
00:50:01,123 --> 00:50:04,627
We'd met our inhuman others

858
00:50:04,668 --> 00:50:07,129
that were nevertheless
a kind of mirror for us.

859
00:50:08,756 --> 00:50:10,132
ROTHENBERG:
Everyone was touched by it.

860
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,385
It really had that effect.

861
00:50:15,054 --> 00:50:16,222
Even the Partridge Family

862
00:50:16,263 --> 00:50:18,098
had a whole episode
on saving the whales.

863
00:50:18,140 --> 00:50:24,355
I Sing me a song
of times that you knew

864
00:50:24,396 --> 00:50:31,445
♪ Through a sky that was clear
from the sea to the land

865
00:50:31,487 --> 00:50:37,243
♪ Free from the fear
and destruction of man ♪

866
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:39,370
(BAND VOCALIZES)

867
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,124
MAN: (ON SPEAKER) The peace
movement lives in America.

868
00:50:44,166 --> 00:50:46,043
PAYNE: Of course, the time
we're talking about here

869
00:50:46,085 --> 00:50:50,464
is the time of protests
and getting some interest

870
00:50:50,506 --> 00:50:53,342
in trying to change some of
the problems in the world.

871
00:50:53,384 --> 00:50:55,553
I mean, it was a perfect storm
of circumstances,

872
00:50:55,594 --> 00:50:56,845
that's what you can say
about it.

873
00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:02,268
I think the way to start
any movement

874
00:51:02,309 --> 00:51:05,646
is you gotta fall in love
first with the species.

875
00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:10,442
We were killing,
at the time I started,

876
00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:12,903
about 33,000 whales a year.

877
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,201
And then a lot of other groups
took off, like Greenpeace.

878
00:51:19,243 --> 00:51:20,953
MAN: (ON BLOWHORN) Please
stop killing the whales.

879
00:51:22,621 --> 00:51:25,291
Without them,
the oceans begin to die

880
00:51:25,332 --> 00:51:27,084
and if the oceans
begin to die,

881
00:51:27,126 --> 00:51:29,712
we all begin to die.

882
00:51:31,630 --> 00:51:33,507
PAYNE: And we got it,
eventually,

883
00:51:33,549 --> 00:51:36,260
down to 330 whales a year.

884
00:51:36,302 --> 00:51:38,095
That's 1%.

885
00:51:40,389 --> 00:51:42,808
You know, we probably
never would've saved whales

886
00:51:42,850 --> 00:51:44,351
unless we heard them sing.

887
00:51:47,187 --> 00:51:48,856
It made people care.

888
00:51:52,026 --> 00:51:54,153
And when people care...

889
00:51:55,821 --> 00:51:57,948
they can change the world.

890
00:51:59,700 --> 00:52:03,329
CLARK: Peace and love
was a very different age.

891
00:52:04,955 --> 00:52:06,665
You listen
to what was the dialogue

892
00:52:06,707 --> 00:52:08,417
that was going on then.

893
00:52:08,459 --> 00:52:11,503
And it was much more
about all of us.

894
00:52:12,713 --> 00:52:14,173
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

895
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:22,598
And now we're in a situation

896
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,226
where we've,
through one way or another,

897
00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:29,104
consciously
isolated ourselves.

898
00:52:31,357 --> 00:52:33,525
BURNETT: So if the promise
of the early '60$

899
00:52:33,567 --> 00:52:36,779
was communication
with ourselves

900
00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:39,448
in new ways
and with animals...

901
00:52:40,866 --> 00:52:43,661
The lonely whale
may be saying, uh,

902
00:52:44,828 --> 00:52:46,288
the... the...

903
00:52:46,330 --> 00:52:47,998
the wire's been cut.

904
00:52:53,420 --> 00:52:55,631
(PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING)

905
00:53:05,766 --> 00:53:10,229
SIROVIC:
97, 8 hours, D3, DIFAR.

906
00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:11,480
HILDEBRAND: Awesome.
SIROVIC: Yeah?

907
00:53:11,522 --> 00:53:12,564
Let's do it.

908
00:53:13,774 --> 00:53:15,401
Permission to
launch sonobuoy.

909
00:53:17,069 --> 00:53:18,529
MAN ON RADIO:
Yeah. Permission granted.

910
00:53:21,198 --> 00:53:22,199
All right.

911
00:53:24,660 --> 00:53:26,662
CALAMBOKIDIS: We're on
a mission of discovery.

912
00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:31,125
We want to learn something,

913
00:53:31,166 --> 00:53:32,584
an answer to a question

914
00:53:32,626 --> 00:53:34,086
no one else knows
the answer to,

915
00:53:35,587 --> 00:53:37,172
and this is an opportunity
to do that.

916
00:53:40,217 --> 00:53:41,677
HILDEBRAND:
There you 90. See it?

917
00:53:42,511 --> 00:53:43,554
Boom.

918
00:53:51,979 --> 00:53:54,732
MAN: It's like you can see
the glow coming up right now!

919
00:53:54,773 --> 00:53:55,816
WOMAN: Yeah, you...

920
00:53:55,858 --> 00:53:56,900
MAN: It's just kinda
sitting there,

921
00:53:56,942 --> 00:53:58,110
they're kind of watching it.

922
00:53:58,152 --> 00:53:59,778
They're basically
getting ready to push this.

923
00:54:04,867 --> 00:54:05,993
DR. ANN ALLEN:
If he were a singer,

924
00:54:06,034 --> 00:54:07,494
there should be another one
showing up.

925
00:54:07,536 --> 00:54:09,830
I mean,
he's not letting us down yet.

926
00:54:11,373 --> 00:54:12,374
John, up right.

927
00:54:15,502 --> 00:54:17,129
(CAMERA CLICKING)

928
00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:21,675
(WHALE SPOUTING)
CADE: Boom.

929
00:54:22,676 --> 00:54:24,386
That's some back!

930
00:54:27,389 --> 00:54:30,100
CALAMBOKIDIS: My preference
would be to trail in a pair.

931
00:54:35,105 --> 00:54:36,523
ALLEN: This may be
a really easy on!

932
00:54:36,565 --> 00:54:38,317
CADE: Yeah,
he's not moving very fast.

933
00:54:40,152 --> 00:54:41,236
Okay, getting ready.

934
00:54:44,156 --> 00:54:45,282
CALAMBOKIDIS: Coming up!

935
00:54:53,123 --> 00:54:54,249
Too far behind.

936
00:54:56,084 --> 00:54:57,377
I thought
they were right in position.

937
00:54:57,419 --> 00:55:00,589
Like, right up swell from him,
ready to go down.

938
00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,049
CALAMBOKIDIS: I didn't
quite have a good read.

939
00:55:02,090 --> 00:55:03,801
When you said, “Coming up,"
I thought, “Go,"

940
00:55:03,842 --> 00:55:05,636
but I shouldn't have gone.

941
00:55:07,971 --> 00:55:09,556
Another one up right here.

942
00:55:15,062 --> 00:55:17,564
JAMES: There's another one
just behind it, John.

943
00:55:17,606 --> 00:55:20,609
There's another whale.
This is our pair.

944
00:55:20,651 --> 00:55:22,486
(CAMERA CLICKING)

945
00:55:24,696 --> 00:55:25,823
CALAMBOKIDIS:
Okay, we want trail.

946
00:55:25,864 --> 00:55:26,824
JAMES: Trail.

947
00:55:31,745 --> 00:55:32,913
(WHALE SPOUTING)

948
00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:39,545
ZEMAN: Looks like they're
gonna try and go for it?

949
00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:42,047
CADE: Right there.
There he is.

950
00:55:42,089 --> 00:55:43,674
They're going for it.
This is it.

951
00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:47,970
JAMES: John,
we're closing on him.

952
00:55:48,762 --> 00:55:49,972
We're closing.

953
00:55:51,223 --> 00:55:52,266
Coming up.

954
00:56:11,869 --> 00:56:13,036
Boom.

955
00:56:13,078 --> 00:56:15,455
(MAN SPEAKING)

956
00:56:15,497 --> 00:56:18,667
Now we'll track the animal
for as long as we can

957
00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:20,878
so that even if we
can't see the animal,

958
00:56:20,919 --> 00:56:21,962
we can actually
get a good idea

959
00:56:22,004 --> 00:56:24,339
of where it's at
and track it down.

960
00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:26,466
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING
ON SPEAKERS)

961
00:56:40,647 --> 00:56:42,357
(ENGINE ACCELERATING)

962
00:56:47,237 --> 00:56:49,281
CADE: Yeah, baby!

963
00:56:49,323 --> 00:56:51,366
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC
CONTINUES ON SPEAKERS)

964
00:56:56,663 --> 00:56:58,290
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)

965
00:57:03,462 --> 00:57:06,381
(SINGING ALONG)
♪ Love will find... ♪

966
00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:12,888
Music for 52.
52, lost love music.

967
00:57:14,806 --> 00:57:16,850
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC
CONTINUES ON SPEAKERS)

968
00:57:20,646 --> 00:57:22,856
(MUFFLED MUSIC CONTINUES)

969
00:57:31,782 --> 00:57:34,034
(LOW, VIBRATING WHALE CALL)

970
00:57:49,841 --> 00:57:53,971
♪ There was a whale
so sad and lonely

971
00:57:54,012 --> 00:57:58,225
♪ Was out at sea
all on her only

972
00:57:58,266 --> 00:58:01,979
♪ Because she sang
so baratonely

973
00:58:02,020 --> 00:58:04,815
♪ Too low for other whales
to hear it

974
00:58:04,856 --> 00:58:07,234
♪ So no other whales
came near it

975
00:58:07,275 --> 00:58:10,028
♪ Still they sang out
full of spirit

976
00:58:10,654 --> 00:58:12,739
<i>♪ She sang</i>

977
00:58:12,781 --> 00:58:15,826
(IN DEEPER VOICE) ♪ “I'm
Doreen, the baleen whale

978
00:58:15,867 --> 00:58:18,453
♪ “Who wouldn't mind
meeting a male

979
00:58:18,495 --> 00:58:20,205
♪ “Who likes krill and swimmin'

980
00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:21,999
♪ “And low-voiced whale women

981
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,959
♪ “My heart will find no love“ ♪

982
00:58:33,969 --> 00:58:35,804
KATE MICUCCI:
It kinda hurts a little bit.

983
00:58:35,846 --> 00:58:36,888
You feel for the whale.

984
00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:40,767
I feel like
people can relate to it

985
00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:43,770
in a way that you just hear
about this one whale

986
00:58:43,812 --> 00:58:46,314
who's never
made any friends,

987
00:58:46,356 --> 00:58:49,776
and I think that really,
really resonates with people.

988
00:58:50,736 --> 00:58:53,071
They understand it.

989
00:58:53,113 --> 00:58:54,281
Everybody feels
like an outsider

990
00:58:54,322 --> 00:58:55,407
at some point
in their life.

991
00:58:57,034 --> 00:58:59,536
I think that's why so
many people care about it.

992
00:58:59,578 --> 00:59:03,206
About him. Or Doreen,
her, as in the song.

993
00:59:03,248 --> 00:59:04,291
But really,
what's his name?

994
00:59:04,332 --> 00:59:06,251
I guess
it's the 52 Hertz Whale?

995
00:59:06,293 --> 00:59:07,502
Does he have a name?

996
00:59:07,544 --> 00:59:09,212
ZEMAN: The scientists
have called him <i>“52.“</i>

997
00:59:09,254 --> 00:59:11,089
52.

998
00:59:11,131 --> 00:59:13,258
Huh, he doesn't even have
a real name, he has a number.

999
00:59:14,593 --> 00:59:16,553
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)

1000
00:59:18,138 --> 00:59:19,931
ZEMAN: While many
had been inspired

1001
00:59:19,973 --> 00:59:21,683
by the notion
of a lonely whale,

1002
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,897
where does the myth of
this story meet the science?

1003
00:59:30,108 --> 00:59:33,320
In other words,
could 52 even feel

1004
00:59:33,361 --> 00:59:35,864
that so-called human emotion?

1005
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:42,329
Is this whale really lonely?

1006
00:59:42,370 --> 00:59:45,290
Whales, at least
from a biological perspective,

1007
00:59:45,332 --> 00:59:48,877
as much as we can tell,
have complex behaviors,

1008
00:59:48,919 --> 00:59:51,379
they have
a lot of parental care,

1009
00:59:51,421 --> 00:59:52,923
they have large brains.

1010
00:59:54,591 --> 00:59:57,260
So I think
this loneliness idea

1011
00:59:57,302 --> 00:59:59,513
is interesting
in that context.

1012
01:00:01,348 --> 01:00:02,766
On the other hand,

1013
01:00:02,808 --> 01:00:07,479
I really wouldn't want
to hazard a guess

1014
01:00:07,521 --> 01:00:08,939
of whether this creature's

1015
01:00:08,980 --> 01:00:12,400
actually emotionally lonely
or not.

1016
01:00:12,442 --> 01:00:15,862
VINT VIRGA:
Whales are social beings.

1017
01:00:16,530 --> 01:00:17,906
Period.

1018
01:00:17,948 --> 01:00:20,867
The fact that
nobody is responding to him

1019
01:00:20,909 --> 01:00:24,663
absolutely, without a doubt,
this whale is lonely,

1020
01:00:24,704 --> 01:00:27,958
and that's not being
anthropomorphic.

1021
01:00:27,999 --> 01:00:32,254
Yeah, remarkably, if you say
things often enough,

1022
01:00:32,295 --> 01:00:34,297
it turns into fact.

1023
01:00:34,339 --> 01:00:36,716
But we don't have
very much information

1024
01:00:36,758 --> 01:00:38,927
to make these
broad, general statements.

1025
01:00:40,971 --> 01:00:42,597
PAYNE:
Any feeling that we have

1026
01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:44,683
that we call
“feeling lonely“

1027
01:00:44,724 --> 01:00:47,727
must be shared
with other animals.

1028
01:00:47,769 --> 01:00:50,272
The chances that we
invented these emotions

1029
01:00:50,313 --> 01:00:54,109
are basically somewhere
between zero and minus one.

1030
01:00:55,944 --> 01:00:59,489
<i>Patrick R HOP. We have a
good idea of what sentient is.</i>

1031
01:00:59,531 --> 01:01:04,744
The sense of awareness,
the sense of self.

1032
01:01:04,786 --> 01:01:09,207
A sense of how yourself
can relate to others.

1033
01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:11,877
In human beings,

1034
01:01:11,918 --> 01:01:14,546
we discovered
this particular cell type

1035
01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:17,174
known as spindle cells.

1036
01:01:17,215 --> 01:01:19,926
These are cells
that have to do

1037
01:01:19,968 --> 01:01:23,180
with self-awareness
and emotions.

1038
01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:26,141
We found that these cells

1039
01:01:26,183 --> 01:01:29,352
did not exist
only in the human.

1040
01:01:29,394 --> 01:01:33,440
We found plenty of these
neurons in the large whales.

1041
01:01:33,481 --> 01:01:37,652
So whether another species
is sentient...

1042
01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:39,779
it is possible.

1043
01:01:48,997 --> 01:01:50,707
ZEMAN: While we may
never know for sure

1044
01:01:50,749 --> 01:01:54,044
whether 52
has ever felt alone,

1045
01:01:54,085 --> 01:01:57,255
he was still a symbol
of connection for so many.

1046
01:01:59,090 --> 01:02:00,592
As he was for me.

1047
01:02:05,263 --> 01:02:07,515
Growing up,
I found my connections

1048
01:02:07,557 --> 01:02:10,602
in stories about the sea.

1049
01:02:10,644 --> 01:02:13,563
In quest to explore
these underwater worlds

1050
01:02:13,605 --> 01:02:16,650
and the mysterious creatures
that lived deep within it.

1051
01:02:18,318 --> 01:02:20,862
But now,
on this real-life expedition,

1052
01:02:20,904 --> 01:02:23,240
on this quest to find 52,

1053
01:02:24,491 --> 01:02:27,160
can I see the truth
behind this legend?

1054
01:02:29,246 --> 01:02:31,623
Only out here
on the open ocean,

1055
01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:35,460
have I come to realize

1056
01:02:35,502 --> 01:02:37,295
we're not just looking
for a lonely whale,

1057
01:02:39,297 --> 01:02:42,759
but for the most elusive
creature of them all.

1058
01:02:51,726 --> 01:02:53,395
(ZEMAN SPEAKING)

1059
01:02:55,772 --> 01:02:57,440
Usually,
I'll do a lot of singing.

1060
01:02:58,733 --> 01:03:00,735
I talk to the whales
a little more

1061
01:03:00,777 --> 01:03:03,071
than if anyone is around.

1062
01:03:03,113 --> 01:03:05,448
I really enjoy
being out on the ocean,

1063
01:03:05,490 --> 01:03:07,367
I really enjoy the adventure,

1064
01:03:07,409 --> 01:03:08,827
but the excitement is over

1065
01:03:08,868 --> 01:03:11,037
trying to learn,
or see something

1066
01:03:11,079 --> 01:03:13,873
that no one's been able
to describe before.

1067
01:03:13,915 --> 01:03:16,960
It's kind of, like,
your claim to meaningfulness

1068
01:03:17,002 --> 01:03:19,713
and the sea of humanity
we have.

1069
01:03:30,890 --> 01:03:32,851
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)

1070
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:45,322
ZEMAN: Looking for clues
as to where

1071
01:03:45,363 --> 01:03:48,158
whales may be congregating
in the area,

1072
01:03:48,199 --> 01:03:50,869
our scientists
attempt to locate a tag...

1073
01:03:50,910 --> 01:03:52,120
(DEVICE BEEPING)
...that's dislodged

1074
01:03:52,162 --> 01:03:54,289
from one of the animals.

1075
01:03:54,331 --> 01:03:55,832
CALAMBOKIDIS I don't think
it can be terribly far,

1076
01:03:55,874 --> 01:03:58,293
because I got beeps
online on the whale.

1077
01:03:58,335 --> 01:04:00,962
(MAN SPEAKING)

1078
01:04:01,004 --> 01:04:02,672
CALAMBOKIDIS: Okay, if you've
got a good read on it,

1079
01:04:03,256 --> 01:04:04,549
(WATER SPLASHING)

1080
01:04:04,591 --> 01:04:06,718
(DEVICE CONTINUES BEEPING)

1081
01:04:07,719 --> 01:04:12,140
(CALAMBOKIDIS SPEAKING)

1082
01:04:14,601 --> 01:04:16,644
Copy all. I just entered
those numbers,

1083
01:04:16,686 --> 01:04:18,730
so we're
7.6 off of those.

1084
01:04:18,772 --> 01:04:20,732
I think we're gonna have
a fair stab at it.

1085
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:24,736
(CADE SPEAKING)

1086
01:04:25,695 --> 01:04:27,947
(DEVICE BEEPING RAPIDLY)

1087
01:04:36,623 --> 01:04:37,624
Yeah!

1088
01:04:38,958 --> 01:04:40,460
Still recording,
good stuff.

1089
01:04:42,337 --> 01:04:45,548
Tag number three
is back in possession.

1090
01:04:45,590 --> 01:04:47,884
CALAMBOKIDIS: Okay,
we're going to move again.

1091
01:04:47,926 --> 01:04:48,885
Okay, John.

1092
01:04:50,261 --> 01:04:51,554
CAPTAIN DAVEY:
So here's our position

1093
01:04:51,596 --> 01:04:53,890
indicated by
that blue boat.

1094
01:04:53,932 --> 01:04:55,934
And we're about to cross
the shipping lane

1095
01:04:55,975 --> 01:04:57,852
almost at a right angle.

1096
01:04:57,894 --> 01:05:01,314
And these green marks
are other vessels,

1097
01:05:01,356 --> 01:05:03,441
so he's getting
in pretty close company.

1098
01:05:05,402 --> 01:05:08,196
ZEMAN: What kind of container
ship do you think that is?

1099
01:05:08,238 --> 01:05:11,241
CALAMBOKIDIS: That's
a car carrier going to LA,

1100
01:05:11,282 --> 01:05:16,246
filled with cars, likely
Taiwan, China, or Japan.

1101
01:05:16,287 --> 01:05:18,415
And unfortunate,
through chance,

1102
01:05:18,456 --> 01:05:19,999
this shipping lane
goes right along

1103
01:05:20,041 --> 01:05:22,085
one of the most common
areas for blue whales.

1104
01:05:31,094 --> 01:05:32,387
CALAMBOKIDIS: We've had
numerous ship strikes

1105
01:05:32,429 --> 01:05:34,431
of these animals
in Southern California

1106
01:05:34,472 --> 01:05:36,307
because there's so much
shipping traffic

1107
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:37,725
that comes into that area.

1108
01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:39,561
(CAMERA CLICKING)

1109
01:05:51,197 --> 01:05:53,116
We know from
some of our tags

1110
01:05:53,158 --> 01:05:56,369
that these whales
do very little response

1111
01:05:56,411 --> 01:05:58,788
to ships in terms of knowing
how to avoid them.

1112
01:06:00,081 --> 01:06:02,041
They'll make very little
lateral movement

1113
01:06:02,083 --> 01:06:03,418
away from
the track of a ship.

1114
01:06:04,919 --> 01:06:07,130
So, these huge ships
sometimes,

1115
01:06:07,172 --> 01:06:10,842
traveling at 25
or more knots,

1116
01:06:10,884 --> 01:06:14,012
it's clear they're not adapted
to deal with that threat.

1117
01:06:15,972 --> 01:06:17,557
ZEMAN: The Santa Barbara
shipping lane

1118
01:06:17,599 --> 01:06:21,853
leads directly to the ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach,

1119
01:06:21,895 --> 01:06:25,523
the busiest shipping hub
in the United States.

1120
01:06:25,565 --> 01:06:27,984
It accounts for close
to half of all goods

1121
01:06:28,026 --> 01:06:30,069
coming into this country.

1122
01:06:30,111 --> 01:06:34,491
9070 of everything we consume,
everything we eat,

1123
01:06:34,532 --> 01:06:37,202
everything we wear,
everything we live in,

1124
01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:39,537
comes to us
from someplace else.

1125
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,374
And it comes by sea.

1126
01:06:43,416 --> 01:06:45,376
(SHIP HORN BLOWS)

1127
01:06:46,794 --> 01:06:47,879
HILDEBRAND:
This is chronic.

1128
01:06:49,297 --> 01:06:51,966
Always present,
there's noise.

1129
01:06:53,051 --> 01:06:54,219
That's what the ships do.

1130
01:06:56,513 --> 01:06:59,349
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1131
01:06:59,390 --> 01:07:02,560
So, the container ship
will come along,

1132
01:07:02,602 --> 01:07:04,020
and it will absolutely
wipe us out.

1133
01:07:05,355 --> 01:07:06,731
'Cause it'll be
so much noise,

1134
01:07:08,399 --> 01:07:10,109
and you just...
There's nothing you can do.

1135
01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:11,528
You just wait
for the ship to go by.

1136
01:07:13,947 --> 01:07:15,114
You get mad,

1137
01:07:16,407 --> 01:07:17,534
you get grumpy.

1138
01:07:20,411 --> 01:07:23,831
There are other noises from
explosions to look for oil.

1139
01:07:25,875 --> 01:07:28,586
We set up sonar
to hunt for submarines.

1140
01:07:30,421 --> 01:07:32,715
But the most ubiquitous
are the ships.

1141
01:07:35,969 --> 01:07:39,305
CLARK: The acoustic footprint
from a ship going 30 knots...

1142
01:07:41,140 --> 01:07:44,811
There are rings of energy
radiating out from that ship

1143
01:07:44,852 --> 01:07:47,063
that go for 200, 300 miles.

1144
01:07:49,107 --> 01:07:53,403
Sixty years ago,
ship noise didn't exist.

1145
01:07:53,444 --> 01:07:57,532
Today, when we think
of all the shipping traffic,

1146
01:07:57,574 --> 01:08:01,327
fifty thousand ships moving
over the surface of the ocean,

1147
01:08:01,369 --> 01:08:03,454
and we think
of a really big place,

1148
01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:07,250
such as the environment
off Southern California,

1149
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:12,005
Seattle, Philadelphia,
vancouver

1150
01:08:12,046 --> 01:08:14,841
New York,
on and on and on.

1151
01:08:14,882 --> 01:08:17,010
(SHIP'S ENGINE CLANGING)

1152
01:08:17,051 --> 01:08:19,679
The noise levels
are a thousand times,

1153
01:08:19,721 --> 01:08:22,307
ten thousand times greater

1154
01:08:22,348 --> 01:08:24,434
than they would be
under natural conditions.

1155
01:08:24,475 --> 01:08:25,435
(WHALES SPOUTING)

1156
01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:31,024
So, imagine you're a whale.

1157
01:08:31,065 --> 01:08:35,570
Your eyes can only see
your tail, maybe 30 feet away.

1158
01:08:38,364 --> 01:08:41,784
Your ears are what you're
going to pay attention to.

1159
01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:42,994
(MUFFLED WAVES CRASHING)

1160
01:08:45,455 --> 01:08:49,208
You can hear the waves
of the shore to your left,

1161
01:08:49,250 --> 01:08:51,169
which indicate the coastline.

1162
01:08:53,921 --> 01:08:57,884
You can hear the voices
of other whales...

1163
01:08:57,925 --> 01:08:59,636
(WHALES CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

1164
01:08:59,677 --> 01:09:02,013
...from hundreds
of miles away.

1165
01:09:02,055 --> 01:09:05,642
<i>(WHALE CALL CONTINUES)</i>

1166
01:09:07,435 --> 01:09:09,354
And in the distance,

1167
01:09:09,395 --> 01:09:13,107
the noise
of ships approaching.

1168
01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:15,777
You can actually hear
the propellers churning.

1169
01:09:15,818 --> 01:09:19,030
And the noise rises
and rises and rises and rises.

1170
01:09:19,072 --> 01:09:20,156
(MUFFLED ENGINE CLANGING)

1171
01:09:20,198 --> 01:09:22,450
This massive acoustic smog.

1172
01:09:23,826 --> 01:09:25,703
And then,
out of the distance...

1173
01:09:25,745 --> 01:09:27,038
(MUFFLED GUNSHOTS)

1174
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,416
...the sounds of
a seismic air gun array,

1175
01:09:30,458 --> 01:09:34,295
prospecting for oil and gas
beneath the seafloor.

1176
01:09:34,337 --> 01:09:36,214
(SEISMIC AIR GUN
CONTINUES BLASTING)

1177
01:09:43,930 --> 01:09:46,099
It drowns out everything

1178
01:09:46,140 --> 01:09:49,102
you could possibly
be listening to.

1179
01:09:49,143 --> 01:09:51,646
(MUFFLED GUN BLASTING
CONTINUES)

1180
01:10:10,373 --> 01:10:16,504
Humans, naturally,
we are social beings.

1181
01:10:16,546 --> 01:10:19,382
We are intensely social beings,

1182
01:10:19,424 --> 01:10:24,971
and we do all kinds of things
in order to be social beings.

1183
01:10:25,012 --> 01:10:27,306
The greatest
joys one can feel

1184
01:10:27,348 --> 01:10:30,351
is actually in
the connectivity with life.

1185
01:10:32,562 --> 01:10:35,606
You know perfectly well
the difference between

1186
01:10:35,648 --> 01:10:39,610
being in a room
with your friends

1187
01:10:39,652 --> 01:10:42,989
and laughing and singing
and conversing

1188
01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:45,908
and knowing that you are
connected with each other.

1189
01:10:45,950 --> 01:10:49,328
As opposed to going to
dinner in a restaurant

1190
01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:52,457
and it's so noisy,
you can't hear anything.

1191
01:10:54,375 --> 01:10:58,045
We're depriving these animals
of their abilities

1192
01:10:58,087 --> 01:11:00,465
to maintain
their social systems.

1193
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:05,094
ZEMAN:
What would it feel like

1194
01:11:05,136 --> 01:11:06,929
to have your whole world
drowned out,

1195
01:11:06,971 --> 01:11:08,848
unable to communicate?

1196
01:11:10,767 --> 01:11:13,728
By suffocating
these creatures with noise,

1197
01:11:13,770 --> 01:11:17,356
we were creating a whole ocean
of lonely whales.

1198
01:11:20,401 --> 01:11:24,197
It was a scourge we witnessed
every day on this expedition,

1199
01:11:24,238 --> 01:11:26,949
as it jeopardized our chances
of finding 52

1200
01:11:29,035 --> 01:11:30,453
and we were
running out of time.

1201
01:11:32,371 --> 01:11:33,915
We had only
one day left

1202
01:11:33,956 --> 01:11:35,583
and our best option
for locating

1203
01:11:35,625 --> 01:11:37,210
large groups of whales,

1204
01:11:37,251 --> 01:11:39,212
and possibly 52,

1205
01:11:39,253 --> 01:11:42,173
was the evidence retrieved
from one of our tags.

1206
01:11:46,344 --> 01:11:48,805
CADE: So here's our deployment
from yesterday.

1207
01:11:48,846 --> 01:11:50,598
Really good stuff.

1208
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,017
You know, we were lucky
to even recover this tag,

1209
01:11:53,059 --> 01:11:56,270
because this animal
traveled to the west.

1210
01:11:56,312 --> 01:11:59,982
Basically, I think we made
assumptions that were wrong.

1211
01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:04,195
My main strategy
was to proceed to the east.

1212
01:12:04,237 --> 01:12:07,657
Now we know that 12,
13 miles to the west

1213
01:12:08,699 --> 01:12:09,826
are a bunch of whales.

1214
01:12:13,579 --> 01:12:15,456
(SEAGULL SQUAWKS)

1215
01:12:26,509 --> 01:12:27,635
There's actually
a beer in there.

1216
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:31,222
One lonely beer.

1217
01:12:34,851 --> 01:12:37,186
CALAMBOKIDIS:
Okay, plan for the day.

1218
01:12:37,228 --> 01:12:39,689
Uh, we can already see
white caps out here,

1219
01:12:39,730 --> 01:12:42,733
but we're still gonna go out
and try to head west.

1220
01:12:42,775 --> 01:12:45,444
So if we get
to this concentration,

1221
01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:47,864
obviously it's gonna be good
to have a sonobuoy out

1222
01:12:47,905 --> 01:12:49,657
and listen for 52.

1223
01:12:51,576 --> 01:12:52,952
(CHAIN CLANKING)

1224
01:12:57,415 --> 01:12:58,374
MAN: Yeah, baby!

1225
01:13:12,972 --> 01:13:14,640
(WIND RUMBLING)

1226
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,526
This is the spot.

1227
01:13:25,568 --> 01:13:26,903
Probably one of
the windiest stretches

1228
01:13:26,944 --> 01:13:28,487
in Southern California,

1229
01:13:28,529 --> 01:13:30,197
really hard to get to,

1230
01:13:30,239 --> 01:13:33,784
uh, and totally exposed
to the prevailing conditions.

1231
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:35,286
(WIND HOWLING)

1232
01:13:36,913 --> 01:13:38,331
(WAVES SPLASHING)

1233
01:13:43,169 --> 01:13:45,296
(SPEAKING)

1234
01:13:49,216 --> 01:13:50,259
Here we go.

1235
01:13:56,098 --> 01:13:57,058
(BEEPS)

1236
01:14:08,152 --> 01:14:10,863
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

1237
01:14:10,905 --> 01:14:12,073
Copy that. Go ahead.

1238
01:14:13,574 --> 01:14:15,201
(CALAMBOKIDIS ON RADIO)
34 degrees,

1239
01:14:15,242 --> 01:14:18,537
11.92, 120 degrees,

1240
01:14:18,579 --> 01:14:19,997
35.15.

1241
01:14:22,041 --> 01:14:23,709
(MAN SPEAKS)

1242
01:14:23,751 --> 01:14:26,170
Let's see. I don't see
anything just yet.

1243
01:14:28,589 --> 01:14:29,882
(CADE SPEAKING)

1244
01:14:42,395 --> 01:14:44,855
Stop boat! Stop boat,
stop boat, stop boat!

1245
01:14:44,897 --> 01:14:45,940
Whale up!

1246
01:14:45,982 --> 01:14:47,692
(ENGINE STOPS)

1247
01:14:52,446 --> 01:14:54,031
(ON RADIO) Okay, we're gonna
hang out around these guys

1248
01:14:54,073 --> 01:14:55,241
until we get
a couple good IDs.

1249
01:14:56,325 --> 01:14:57,368
Oh, my God.

1250
01:14:59,620 --> 01:15:01,163
(WHALES SPOUTING)

1251
01:15:05,167 --> 01:15:06,836
(ON RADIO) These guys until
we get a couple good IDs.

1252
01:15:06,877 --> 01:15:08,254
Okay, we're here.

1253
01:15:08,295 --> 01:15:10,131
(SPEAKING)

1254
01:15:10,172 --> 01:15:12,258
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

1255
01:15:16,303 --> 01:15:17,972
(ENGINE WHIRRING)

1256
01:15:38,826 --> 01:15:40,786
(WHALES CONTINUE SPOUTING)

1257
01:16:00,556 --> 01:16:03,267
I've never seen
anything like this.

1258
01:16:03,309 --> 01:16:06,979
We've both been down in
this area for two years now

1259
01:16:07,021 --> 01:16:10,024
and we've had a hard time
finding blue whales at all.

1260
01:16:10,066 --> 01:16:11,192
And when we have, it's been

1261
01:16:11,233 --> 01:16:13,194
single individuals
or pairs usually.

1262
01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:14,820
We've never seen
an aggregation

1263
01:16:14,862 --> 01:16:16,530
this big in this area. MAN:
This one, this one. That one

1264
01:16:20,618 --> 01:16:22,119
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

1265
01:16:25,372 --> 01:16:27,041
ALLEN: Yeah, there's a lot
of animals out there,

1266
01:16:27,083 --> 01:16:28,626
I don't know if you guys
have looked outside.

1267
01:16:28,667 --> 01:16:29,960
HILDEBRAND:
Yeah, everywhere.

1268
01:16:30,002 --> 01:16:31,504
We're surrounded.
(CHUCKLES)

1269
01:16:31,545 --> 01:16:33,130
HILDEBRAND:
Yeah, it's a good day.

1270
01:16:34,423 --> 01:16:35,758
(WHALE SPOUTING)

1271
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:36,884
CADE: Whoa,
what was that?

1272
01:16:39,178 --> 01:16:41,305
What was that?
What was on its dorsal fin?

1273
01:16:43,808 --> 01:16:44,934
(CADE SPEAKING OVER RADIO)

1274
01:16:53,150 --> 01:16:54,485
(CAMERA CLICKING)

1275
01:16:54,527 --> 01:16:56,195
If you look out
the front...

1276
01:16:56,237 --> 01:16:58,155
ZEMAN: Oh, my God! HILDEBRAND:
...it's just in front of us.

1277
01:16:58,197 --> 01:16:59,824
You see the footprint?

1278
01:16:59,865 --> 01:17:01,450
See where the water is kind of
smooth? ZEMAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1279
01:17:01,492 --> 01:17:02,409
That's right there. HILDEBRAND:
That's where they surface.

1280
01:17:02,451 --> 01:17:03,494
He's headed
to the left there.

1281
01:17:03,536 --> 01:17:04,620
ZEMAN: That's amazing.

1282
01:17:05,579 --> 01:17:06,789
ALLEN:
What'd he say, Dave?

1283
01:17:06,831 --> 01:17:08,040
CADE: He said,
“Yeah, hang tight"

1284
01:17:08,082 --> 01:17:09,583
If we have one
that's a potential hybrid,

1285
01:17:09,625 --> 01:17:11,877
like, hang tight,
let's go check that out.

1286
01:17:11,919 --> 01:17:13,921
Is he gonna come over?
He's coming over.

1287
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:15,464
(ENGINE WHIRRING)

1288
01:17:19,552 --> 01:17:22,179
The second one...
The sensor isn't as deep.

1289
01:17:23,556 --> 01:17:24,723
channel"
Right.

1290
01:17:26,183 --> 01:17:27,893
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1291
01:17:29,895 --> 01:17:31,230
HILDEBRAND: How come
there's nothing here?

1292
01:17:42,658 --> 01:17:44,201
(RADIO STATIC HISSING)

1293
01:17:47,246 --> 01:17:50,958
HILDEBRAND: We're just waiting
for the whales to speak to us.

1294
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:52,960
There's nobody at the surface
right now.

1295
01:17:54,378 --> 01:17:56,172
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1296
01:17:58,174 --> 01:17:59,675
HILDEBRAND:
This is really bad.

1297
01:17:59,717 --> 01:18:01,218
Really bad, bad, bad.

1298
01:18:04,013 --> 01:18:05,139
(ZEMAN SPEAKS)

1299
01:18:09,101 --> 01:18:10,895
(SHIP HORN BLOWS)

1300
01:18:18,152 --> 01:18:20,487
(CALAMBOKIDIS ON RADIO) It's
a ship coming down the channel.

1301
01:18:24,658 --> 01:18:25,951
(SIGHS)

1302
01:18:27,578 --> 01:18:29,622
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)

1303
01:18:38,631 --> 01:18:40,424
(SHIP HORN BLOWS)

1304
01:19:05,699 --> 01:19:07,868
CALAMBOKIDIS: I mean,
if there is any opportunity

1305
01:19:07,910 --> 01:19:09,036
to come back here,

1306
01:19:10,204 --> 01:19:12,790
looking for the 52 Hertz Whale,

1307
01:19:14,458 --> 01:19:17,711
I would say this is our
highest priority area to work.

1308
01:19:20,714 --> 01:19:24,635
Between what we've observed
before and what we saw today,

1309
01:19:24,677 --> 01:19:26,512
makes it very intriguing
to work here.

1310
01:19:35,062 --> 01:19:37,022
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

1311
01:19:45,155 --> 01:19:47,074
(SQUAWKING)

1312
01:20:06,885 --> 01:20:08,429
ZEMAN:
We all fear risk.

1313
01:20:10,639 --> 01:20:12,891
The risk of believing
in something

1314
01:20:12,933 --> 01:20:14,601
that just may
not come true.

1315
01:20:17,896 --> 01:20:20,441
I truly believed
I was going to find 52...

1316
01:20:24,153 --> 01:20:25,612
And I won't say
it didn't matter,

1317
01:20:26,864 --> 01:20:28,115
because it did.

1318
01:20:29,742 --> 01:20:32,328
I was gonna be the one
to solve this mystery,

1319
01:20:34,413 --> 01:20:35,539
to find that answer.

1320
01:20:37,541 --> 01:20:38,625
But I was wrong.

1321
01:20:46,258 --> 01:20:47,468
(CELL PHONE RINGING)

1322
01:20:52,222 --> 01:20:54,767
CALAMBOKIDIS: Hey, Scott.
Is Bruce on as well?

1323
01:20:54,808 --> 01:20:55,768
MATE: I am.
BAKER: Yes.

1324
01:20:56,769 --> 01:20:57,853
(MATE SPEAKING)

1325
01:21:01,648 --> 01:21:02,733
(BAKER SPEAKING)

1326
01:21:20,667 --> 01:21:23,337
In 2004,
Mm-hm.

1327
01:21:23,379 --> 01:21:25,672
We came right out here
off San Miguel... Mm-hmm.

1328
01:21:25,714 --> 01:21:28,050
...and we encountered a big
group of blue and fin whales,

1329
01:21:28,092 --> 01:21:30,302
and in amongst them,
paired with a blue whale,

1330
01:21:30,344 --> 01:21:33,597
was this whale that looked
in between the two.

1331
01:21:34,681 --> 01:21:35,724
(BAKER SPEAKING)

1332
01:21:51,115 --> 01:21:52,491
Hey, Bruce.
Remember we were saying

1333
01:21:52,533 --> 01:21:54,118
how hard it would be
to find this whale

1334
01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:55,786
and here we are,
like, four years later,

1335
01:21:55,828 --> 01:21:57,663
and we've, kind of, almost,

1336
01:21:57,704 --> 01:21:59,415
extremely close
to finding this whale.

1337
01:22:00,290 --> 01:22:01,417
(MATE SPEAKING)

1338
01:22:30,696 --> 01:22:33,782
Well, if you put together
Bruce's data that tells us

1339
01:22:33,824 --> 01:22:36,326
where the whale is
at a particular time,

1340
01:22:36,368 --> 01:22:38,871
with the underwater
sound data

1341
01:22:38,912 --> 01:22:41,498
from the site
that we've maintained,

1342
01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:43,584
you could make
some sort of correspondence

1343
01:22:43,625 --> 01:22:47,129
to say when the whale
was near the sensor,

1344
01:22:47,171 --> 01:22:48,881
what sort of song
did we hear?

1345
01:22:48,922 --> 01:22:50,966
When do you think
you'll be able to look

1346
01:22:51,008 --> 01:22:52,968
at the data
from this HARP?

1347
01:22:53,010 --> 01:22:55,304
It usually takes
a couple of weeks.

1348
01:22:55,345 --> 01:22:57,097
Before Thanksgiving
we should know.

1349
01:22:57,681 --> 01:22:58,932
(MATE SPEAKING)

1350
01:23:06,023 --> 01:23:07,316
It's an amazing
set of events.

1351
01:23:07,357 --> 01:23:09,568
Yeah. We couldn't have
planned it this way.

1352
01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:12,154
CALAMBOKIDIS: What are
the chances of this happening?

1353
01:23:12,196 --> 01:23:14,615
ZEMAN: We now had
one last opportunity

1354
01:23:14,656 --> 01:23:17,743
to prove our expedition
hadn't been in vain.

1355
01:23:19,453 --> 01:23:22,122
To finish the work
Watkins had started.

1356
01:23:23,582 --> 01:23:26,084
And to prove
all these years of searching

1357
01:23:27,544 --> 01:23:28,670
have been worth it.

1358
01:23:32,132 --> 01:23:35,385
Every story
has an ending,

1359
01:23:35,427 --> 01:23:38,555
even if it wasn't the one
you expected.

1360
01:23:45,771 --> 01:23:47,564
(SEAGULL SQUAWKS)

1361
01:24:12,089 --> 01:24:13,715
ZEMAN: So you're saying

1362
01:24:13,757 --> 01:24:19,763
that you know when the whale
went over this HARP?

1363
01:24:19,805 --> 01:24:21,390
That whale
that they tagged?

1364
01:24:23,141 --> 01:24:25,936
HILDEBRAND:
So we have a station

1365
01:24:25,978 --> 01:24:28,021
off of Point Conception,

1366
01:24:28,063 --> 01:24:29,815
and it's that station

1367
01:24:29,856 --> 01:24:33,193
where the tagged whale
from Bruce

1368
01:24:33,235 --> 01:24:35,904
passed right over the top
of our sensor.

1369
01:24:35,946 --> 01:24:39,491
He only had it tagged
for a few weeks

1370
01:24:39,533 --> 01:24:42,411
and we looked at those
time periods really carefully.

1371
01:24:45,122 --> 01:24:48,500
The times that Bruce's whale
swam over our instrument,

1372
01:24:51,003 --> 01:24:52,170
it was not singing.

1373
01:24:55,549 --> 01:24:57,134
Okay. You're sure?

1374
01:25:02,598 --> 01:25:05,684
HILDEBRAND: The absence of
those calls doesn't mean that,

1375
01:25:05,726 --> 01:25:07,269
you know,
the whale wasn't there.

1376
01:25:09,646 --> 01:25:10,731
It just wasn't calling.

1377
01:25:15,402 --> 01:25:16,820
We had an opportunity.

1378
01:25:18,196 --> 01:25:21,658
But, you know,
all the stars did not align.

1379
01:25:28,749 --> 01:25:30,292
So, this was the bad news.

1380
01:25:31,251 --> 01:25:33,211
What do you mean?

1381
01:25:33,253 --> 01:25:34,379
HILDEBRAND:
We do have some good news.

1382
01:25:36,632 --> 01:25:39,384
SIROVIC: We were looking at
the data from the other sites

1383
01:25:41,261 --> 01:25:44,097
and we saw
the 52 Hertz Whale calling.

1384
01:25:45,307 --> 01:25:46,558
This is off of Los Angeles.

1385
01:25:48,226 --> 01:25:52,147
Now, at the same time,
off of San Diego,

1386
01:25:52,189 --> 01:25:55,317
we have here,
similar image,

1387
01:25:55,359 --> 01:25:57,069
again, several minutes
of data,

1388
01:25:57,110 --> 01:26:00,447
and you see these
same little marks.

1389
01:26:00,489 --> 01:26:02,491
And this is within ten
minutes of each other

1390
01:26:02,532 --> 01:26:05,118
that we hear
the Watkins Whale

1391
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:08,205
in two locations that
are about 90 miles apart.

1392
01:26:10,457 --> 01:26:13,418
These are completely
different sequences

1393
01:26:13,460 --> 01:26:14,711
at the same time.
At the same time.

1394
01:26:18,715 --> 01:26:20,050
HILDEBRAND:
It's a culture.

1395
01:26:20,092 --> 01:26:23,053
You could say whale
sounds are a language,

1396
01:26:23,095 --> 01:26:29,851
but they also have to listen
to each other and synchronize.

1397
01:26:29,893 --> 01:26:33,980
And so, who is the 52 Hertz
Whale synchronizing with?

1398
01:26:35,107 --> 01:26:36,149
It's not just one.

1399
01:26:38,318 --> 01:26:39,403
There's at least two.

1400
01:26:40,570 --> 01:26:43,323
Two 52 Hertz Whales.

1401
01:26:44,074 --> 01:26:45,200
There are two.

1402
01:26:48,912 --> 01:26:49,996
Probably more.

1403
01:26:59,256 --> 01:27:00,590
ZEMAN: We might
never have known

1404
01:27:00,632 --> 01:27:02,926
there was more than
one 52 Hertz Whale

1405
01:27:02,968 --> 01:27:05,011
had we not heard
this one call out.

1406
01:27:05,053 --> 01:27:06,722
(WHALE CALLING)

1407
01:27:06,763 --> 01:27:08,473
With a voice
that cut through the noise,

1408
01:27:09,558 --> 01:27:11,059
that demanded
to be heard.

1409
01:27:13,770 --> 01:27:15,939
A voice that reminded us

1410
01:27:15,981 --> 01:27:18,525
the ocean
is not a lonely place.

1411
01:27:18,567 --> 01:27:21,027
(WHALE CALLING IN HIGH PITCH)

1412
01:27:26,867 --> 01:27:28,452
Our discovery
only proves

1413
01:27:28,493 --> 01:27:31,621
that Watkins was right
all along.

1414
01:27:31,663 --> 01:27:34,666
In the ocean,
what we can hear

1415
01:27:34,708 --> 01:27:38,170
is truly far more powerful
than what we can see.

1416
01:27:39,421 --> 01:27:42,758
And it resonates
with a mysterious beauty

1417
01:27:42,799 --> 01:27:46,094
that we are only just
beginning to understand.

1418
01:27:55,228 --> 01:27:57,564
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)

1419
01:27:59,983 --> 01:28:01,985
HILDEBRAND: The 52 Hertz
still is a mystery,

1420
01:28:03,487 --> 01:28:05,405
but I think it's important
to do things

1421
01:28:05,447 --> 01:28:08,492
where you don't know
what the answer's going to be,

1422
01:28:08,533 --> 01:28:10,243
because that's where
you really learn something.

1423
01:28:12,162 --> 01:28:13,455
CALAMBOKIDIS:
You have billions of people

1424
01:28:13,497 --> 01:28:15,165
on this planet.

1425
01:28:15,207 --> 01:28:17,334
Where can you
carve out a unique,

1426
01:28:17,375 --> 01:28:19,419
meaningful role
for yourself

1427
01:28:19,461 --> 01:28:22,214
where you can kind of find
this thing out and share it.

1428
01:28:28,011 --> 01:28:30,180
It may take
a long time,

1429
01:28:30,222 --> 01:28:31,807
but we're going to find
this animal.

1430
01:28:31,848 --> 01:28:34,267
(WHALE CALLING)

1431
01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:36,102
ZEMAN: After years
of endless searching,

1432
01:28:37,145 --> 01:28:38,563
after years of calling out,

1433
01:28:39,397 --> 01:28:41,900
52 finally had his answer

1434
01:28:42,609 --> 01:28:44,611
and I had mine.

1435
01:28:45,278 --> 01:28:48,073
(ZEMAN SPEAKING)

1436
01:28:48,740 --> 01:28:50,033
(CLICKS TONGUE)

1437
01:28:50,075 --> 01:28:52,661
That's the... That's the
ultimate question, isn't it?

1438
01:28:54,329 --> 01:28:58,875
It's not about biology
and it's not about science.

1439
01:29:00,627 --> 01:29:04,381
It's about ourselves.

1440
01:29:04,422 --> 01:29:07,217
It's about our own ability
to communicate

1441
01:29:08,969 --> 01:29:11,638
and our own isolation.

1442
01:29:13,765 --> 01:29:15,267
It's a human experience,

1443
01:29:17,352 --> 01:29:20,355
a reflection
of who we are.

1444
01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:24,818
This whale
isn't lonely.

1445
01:29:26,945 --> 01:29:30,448
This story is about
all of us.

1446
01:29:33,201 --> 01:29:36,663
ZEMAN: To some,
this whale was a hybrid.

1447
01:29:36,705 --> 01:29:39,332
To others,
he was an outsider,

1448
01:29:41,042 --> 01:29:43,378
or even a legend.

1449
01:29:43,420 --> 01:29:46,590
Yet, in our search,
we found a new story,

1450
01:29:46,631 --> 01:29:50,760
not just one of connection,
but more so interconnection.

1451
01:29:52,053 --> 01:29:53,972
We used
to call this creature

1452
01:29:54,014 --> 01:29:55,557
“the loneliest whale
in the world,“

1453
01:29:56,349 --> 01:29:57,475
but after today,

1454
01:29:58,393 --> 01:30:01,396
he's better
known as 52.

1455
01:30:03,273 --> 01:30:05,567
And if you ever want
to find him,

1456
01:30:05,609 --> 01:30:08,486
all you have to do
is listen.

1457
01:30:08,528 --> 01:30:09,988
(WHALE SPOUTS)

1458
01:30:10,030 --> 01:30:13,450
(CAPTIVATING INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)

1459
01:31:09,547 --> 01:31:10,840
(WHALE SPOUTS)

1460
01:31:15,470 --> 01:31:17,639
CALAMBOKIDIS: I have
at least 20 blue whales

1461
01:31:17,681 --> 01:31:19,057
feeding in this area.

1462
01:31:21,726 --> 01:31:24,437
Animals present
in all directions around us.

1463
01:31:37,283 --> 01:31:38,660
(WHALE SPOUTS)

1464
01:31:41,746 --> 01:31:43,540
Mother and calf
blue whale.

1465
01:31:54,342 --> 01:31:55,885
Can't tell if that's
him yet or not.

1466
01:31:55,927 --> 01:31:57,053
MAN: Yeah,
I don't know.

1467
01:31:58,805 --> 01:31:59,889
CALAMBOKIDIS:
Pretty light colored,

1468
01:31:59,931 --> 01:32:01,057
I don't think
that's him.

1469
01:32:03,935 --> 01:32:04,894
Oh, maybe.

1470
01:32:05,979 --> 01:32:08,440
Any visual underwater?
(WHALE SPOUTS)

1471
01:32:08,481 --> 01:32:09,941
MAN: Definitely him.
CALAMBOKIDIS: That's him.

1472
01:32:11,317 --> 01:32:13,945
That's our hybrid
surfacing right there.

1473
01:32:13,987 --> 01:32:15,321
(SPOUTING)

1474
01:32:19,909 --> 01:32:22,245
That's our blue-fin hybrid
in the foreground.

1475
01:32:23,913 --> 01:32:24,956
That's him.

1476
01:32:29,294 --> 01:32:33,131
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC RESUMES)

1477
01:36:19,399 --> 01:36:22,610
(WHALE CALLING RHYTHMICALLY)