Turning whale-watching fleets into a self-sustaining ocean-monitoring network.
A plug-and-play acoustic monitoring system that helps operators find whales, engage passengers, and deliver real-time marine mammal awareness for conservation and management at scale.
The gap
The missing innovation isn't in sensing, it's in scaling.
Traditional Passive Acoustic Monitoring is vital for protecting marine ecosystems, but its current deployment model prevents global scale. Today's systems are:
Expensive
Require expensive hardware and prohibitive operational expenses for dedicated vessel time and specialized crews.
Sparse
High costs restrict the temporal and spatial coverage, leaving vast areas of marine mammal habitat unmonitored.
Unsustainable
Ocean monitoring remains largely grant-dependent, constraining long-term scale and continuity.
Our Solution
DeepWhale changes the economics of ocean monitoring.
Thousands of whale-watching vessels already spend millions of hours at sea each year in close proximity to marine mammals. By equipping these vessels with advanced acoustic monitoring technology, DeepWhale creates commercial value for operators while transforming routine tourism activity into a scalable, self-sustaining ocean-monitoring network.
Tourism funds the infrastructure. Conservation benefits from the data.
The system
One Platform. Two Deployment Modes.
Designed for seamless integration with existing whale-watch operations.
The Quick-Dip Pole
Uncrewed Surface Vessel
How it works
From underwater sounds to a self-sustaining ocean-observing network.
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Deploy
Deploy in under a minute from any vessel. No hull installations, no cables, no specialists required.
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Detect & Localize
The edge processor detects whale vocalizations, classifies species, and estimates their location in real time.
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Deliver Insights
Skippers navigate with the whale locations and confidence metrics. Passengers follow the whale and listen to live sounds on their devices.
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Share Securely
Measured data and real-time detections are securely transmitted to the cloud, where they are stored, validated, and aggregated.
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Power Ocean Intelligence
Build a global ocean-observing network that delivers AI-powered ocean awareness for conservation, marine management, and compliance.
The value proposition
Conservation infrastructure, financed by commercial adoption.
Find whales faster
Delight passengers
Hear the ocean
Every vessel becomes a sensor
Real-time conservation insights
A Growing Foundation for Marine Research
About
Dr. Guy Gubnitsky
Founder & CEO
A marine bioacoustics researcher, engineer, and entrepreneur focused on developing practical technologies for marine mammal monitoring.
Futurismo Azores Adventures
Pilot partner
A leading whale-watching operator in the Azores and a pioneer in sustainable marine ecotourism.
Futurismo provides operational expertise, fleet access and real-world conditions for system validation, sea trials, and future deployments, helping ensure DeepWhale is built for the realities of commercial whale-watching operations.
Visit futurismo.ptDeepWhale was founded on a simple principle: ocean monitoring can scale sustainably when it creates value for those making it possible.
By helping whale-watching operators improve their operations and deliver more immersive passenger experiences, DeepWhale transforms everyday tourism activities into a growing ocean-monitoring network, generating valuable data for marine research and conservation.
Restoring and protecting the health of our oceans.
Let's put ocean-listening on every boat.
For partnerships, deployments, or to learn more about DeepWhale, get in touch.