Noise impact on whales and dolphins to be measured off west Cork 

A data-gathering buoy has been deployed 9km off the coast of Baltimore for the country’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species

The massive 2 tonne, 13ft buoy which was dropped into the Celtic Sea off the coast of Baltimore, Co Cork, as part of Ireland’s first-ever real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise. Pictures: Robin Murray, Nomos

The coast off Baltimore in west Cork will serve as the scientific hotspot for a major project monitoring how noise impacts whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

The country’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species saw a 13-foot two-tonne buoy, specially designed for data gathering, deployed some 9km off the coast of Baltimore for the next year.