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Teledyne Webb Research Slocum glider equipped with a hydrophone to record ocean sound dives underwater.

Ocean gliders are a quiet and efficient mobile autonomous platform for passive acoustic monitoring and oceanographic measurements in remote marine environments. Researchers equipped a Teledyne Webb Research Slocum glider with a hydrophone to record sound along the US Pacific Northwest coast.