Listen to orcas live!
Welcome to the Salish Sea hydrophone network
| A growing coalition of scientists, educators, and citizens are working together to expand a regional hydrophone network in the Salish Sea. This site is part of the SeaSound Project of The Whale Museum and is an experiment in sharing real-time underwater sound. The goals are to monitor the critical habitat of endangered southern resident killer whales to detect orca sounds and measure ambient noise levels.
Click on the links in this column to listen live to the underwater sound from each location. Listen to OrcaSound on San Juan Island Listen to Lime Kiln State Park on San Juan Island Listen to Port Townsend Marine Science Center Listen to the Seattle Aquarium
If you are here playing our Acoustic Game from your classroom visit, or not, keep this window open so that you can use our call library listed below to help you identify what you are hearing! Click on the link below to hear a sample of each call! S1 Call: Used mostly by J Pod but shared by all 3 pods S2i Call: Used by J Pod S2iii Call: Used by J pod and L pod S4: Used by J Pod and K Pod s16: Used mostly by K Pod, but shared with all 3. If heard in combination with the S17 call below then it’s probably K pod. S17: Used by K Pod
S18: Used by L Pod
S19: Used by L Pod
S22: Used by L Pod
S36: used by K Pod and L Pod
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