Turning whale-watching fleets into a self-sustaining ocean-monitoring network.
An affordable, 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 unprecedented 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 direct proximity to marine mammals. By equipping these vessels with low-cost acoustic monitoring systems, DeepWhale creates commercial incentives for operators while turning routine tourism activity into a scalable, self-sustaining ocean-monitoring network.
Tourism funds the infrastructure. Conservation receives the data.
The system
One Platform. Two Deployment Modes.
Designed for seamless integration with existing whale-watch operations.
The Quick-Dip Pole
The Floating Pole
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 dataset that never stops growing
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
One of the world's leading whale-watching operators 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 around a simple idea: ocean observation will only scale when the organizations collecting data also benefit from it. By aligning commercial incentives with conservation outcomes, DeepWhale aims to make large-scale ocean listening economically sustainable.
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.