From Deep Blue Home by Julie Whitty

" Whales produce two streams of sonar clicks, separated in time by phonic lips, integrating larynx-like structures inside their  heads, that constrict air passing through interior sinuses to vibrate surrounding tissues.Odontocetes control these vibrations with Pavarotti- like precision as the sound passes through the head into the melon( on top of the head) the less than one second delay between one ecolocational beam and its partner cancels the  frequency of sound in some regions of space while enhancing it in others, deflecting the beams to produce one wider ray of " light". To the human ear stripped of its own directional acuity in the underwater world pilot whale efficientlyecholocation sounds like a buzzing beehive in three dimensional overdrive, a nearly impenetrable wall of sound, made all the more confounding by the fact that a number of whales are ecolocating at once, producing layers of clicks as dense as white noise. For the whales however this bath of sound shines a floodlight on their world though the reflected images are not received in their eyes but in the parabolic bones of their skulls in fat deposits in the long bars of their lower jaws. The images of the sounds are also received in the ears afloat in( echoed) air spaces and fatty areas in their heads- so unlike our own ears tethered by bone to our skulls and unable to discern direction or most frequencies in water.Odontocete echolocation not only illuminates the sea, it penetrates the sea and all things in it right through to the bones"

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" Angry jellyfish and a whale stir the web"

Angry jellyfish, a whale that throws itself at a boat

and a shark attacking a helicoptor all within days

of each other.

The ocean is seething my friends,

 its seething.

Inside its deep wine blue brine the trickle

of mercury has been injected.

Inside the fluted pathways the whales

 remember that their blood is tainted.

 The ocean is seething my loves

 its  seething.