Comment by officehero
5 hours ago
But they need to explain why the range is so large. Did they witness whales at the site on day 2? It's unnecessarily ambiguous.
5 hours ago
But they need to explain why the range is so large. Did they witness whales at the site on day 2? It's unnecessarily ambiguous.
The article calls the data an "observation", made by the captain of a Rescue Boat from Sea World Foundation. From a peek at https://seaworldfoundation.com.au/rescue it seems clear that their job is rescue, not research.
Keeping even a small boat at sea is not cheap - the default for pretty much every observation at sea, ever, is that the witnesses did not stick around to see anything beyond what they reported.