Our Special Equipment!

An Underwater Camera
This is mounted on the bow of the boat and lowered into the water whenever we're with dolphins or whales that are coming very close to the boat. You can see what is happening underwater on the two color monitors that are mounted inside the cockpit area. It's a totally different perspective from what is viewed on the surface. We once even lowered the camera about 50-feet to see 'what the heck was going on down there' when we repeatedly saw Risso dolphin and sea lions diving and surfacing in the same area. We saw thousands and thousands of squid, and the
mammals that were feeding on them.

Research Quality Hydrophone
Designed by Josh Jones, who is reknown for this kind of thing, this customized underwater microphone is able to filter out engine noise and water sounds. What that means is we are able to keep the boat moving, keeping you inside the pod, while we trail the unit behind us. The result is a multi-dimensional experience that you'll never forget. You can clcik here for a sample. Keep in mind, these sounds are amplified 25 times when you're on the boat and broadcast in stereo on our state-of-the-art speakers. You'll not only see the megapod, you'll hear them rushing towards you!
Hear a megapod of dolphin with our new hydrophone!
While it may sound like static, it's actually thousands of clicks as the pod turns towards us. If you listen closely, you'll hear whistles, too! For a more detailed description of the experience, see Capt. Dave's Ocean report on July 7, 2005

Underwater transducers
Traditionally, these are most often used for research, but we have permission from the folks at National Marine Fisheries to use them. They turn one of our hulls into a speaker enabling us to breadcast sound at safe levels for the animals. We can play various kinds of music, dolphin vocalizations, or your voice saying hello and watch how they respond! With that said, after three years what we found was that the dolphins didn't respiond to the sounds one way or the other and after a while, knwoing that, we felt it had become more of a gimmick than a true science experiment. We decided not to use the underwater transducers any longer in 2006.