Back in Baja California, our long awaiting mission to collect whale snot by using drones. In almost 5 years perfecting the Snotbot, the way we collect, and fine tuning gathering important data, we working hard to look further into the future of whales.
The conditions were challenging, (working on the ocean always is), we had strong winds and a change of current, resulting in a change of the feeding behaviour. But when we had whales, we are guaranteed to collect the snot, because that's what we do best.
In the end we had nearly 60 samples, plus photogrammetry and even several poop samples. All this means a complete data set of several whales, making it extremely valuable. We did observe less calves than usual (couldn't see any) and quite a number of skinny whales. In the same migration pattern are the grey whales, and almost 2000 individuals have been lost since last year. This is alarming and should tell us that something is wrong. There is no better way to find out than a non invasive tool like ours.