This is our last day and we are in Punta Carena, one of the most beautiful underwater landscape off the coast of Capri. Today we have deployed the last hydrophone that, together with the other 2 we deployed the past few days, will be recovered by the Carabinieri Nucleo Subacqueo. This is only the first phase of the project sponsored by Triton, called "The Sound of Silence". In a month time we will recover the hydrophone and will analyse the data in Grenoble. We complete the first data collection campaign, which was supported by Rosalba Giugni, chairman of Marevivo Onlus, and this...
We have dived back in the sea today for our "The Sound of Silence" project. Together with the Carabinieri Nucleo Subacqueo, in Naples, we have deployed the hydrophone that Triton gave us, near the Santa Croce Bank. Tomorrow we will go to Capri. This project is managed by the Parc National des Calanques and it aims at collecting audio data from two of the most beautiful cities in the Med: Marseilles and Naples.
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