A Cape Cod science center and one of the world's largest shipping businesses are collaborating on a project to use robotic buoys to protect a vanishing whale from lethal collisions with ships.
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The whales were once abundant off the East Coast, but their populations were decimated generations ago by commercial whaling.
Acoustic buoys are equipped with technology developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, that can detect, classify, and report the sounds of marine animals in near real-time. (Photo: AP)
The whales were once abundant off the East Coast but their populations were decimated generations ago by commercial whaling
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