Almost ten years ago I wrote the introduction to a small educational foundation my colleagues and I were going to set up.

It read:

According to the noted American Marine Biologist, Roger Payne, the great whales of the world have 'enjoyed' a global communication network for tens of thousand of years, gaining the benfit of a "deep sound channel in the ocean", a combination of thermal layers and currents that allowed these whales to transmit their 'songs' at a wavelength of 20hz over incredible distances to communicate with whales in other oceans.

Today however, the "noise" created by human movement and activity above,below,through and with the ocean, occurs almost primarily at the same wavelength of 20hz; effectively severing what has been the worlds first truly 'global' communications network !!

As you may realise, the goal of establishing global educational networks and community-building activities became the basis of the work of the Whalesong Foundation and its subsequent iterations. Yes some my say obtuse, but there is a little method in the madness!

Read the story and listen.....
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