Ocean Alliance Releases Voyage of the Odyssey Report
6/24/2010
The Voyage of the Odyssey Report is the scientific end-product of Ocean Alliance’s 5-year, round the
world research expedition during which scientists and crew collected biopsy samples and other data from almost 1,000 sperm whales globally.
Conducted aboard Ocean Alliance’s research vessel Odyssey, a 93-foot ketch motor-sailor, the expedition collected research data from sperm whales while providing formal and informal education and conservation programs in the 118 ports in 22 countries that the Odyssey and crew visited.
Departing from San Diego and traveling 87,000 nautical miles before its return to Boston, the Voyage of the Odyssey was a remarkably successful expedition to collect the first-ever baseline data set on toxic contaminants throughout the world’s oceans by studying the sperm whale, a cosmopolitan whale species that sits atop the oceanic food chain.
To access the Executive Summary, click here or on the image at right
