Subscribe and listen to 52 Hertz on on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcasting platform. Join us and our inspiring guests to discover how you can fight for a future with clean seas. We'll be answering questions like: What does recycling have to do with human rights? What can a teenager teach us about the environment by sailing through the Bermuda triangle? What is climate justice? How does race and class affect climate change and activism? And what in the actual are petrochemicals? We'll also be talking about eco anxiety and why none of us not even the world's loneliest whale are ever truly alone. Each week, our host Petrice Jones will explore the topics of plastic plastic pollution with entrepreneurs, environmental activists, and youth leaders who are disrupting their industries, challenging the status quo, and going against the current-all to rethink our approach to plastics on a global scale. They call him the world's loneliest whale.ĥ2 Hertz is a podcast inspired by that same whale who dared to call out at his own frequency.
A pitch so unique that it's believed to belong to the only whale of its kind. Somewhere deep in the ocean, a mysterious whale calls out at an unusual frequency of 52 Hertz. Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.Tune in to 52 Hertz, and tune out plastic. You’ll never again think of whales and their songs in the same way, and that’s a good thing, as our understanding of these amazing creatures rapidly evolves. Zeman’s voyage into the heart of the sea, a modern day “Moby-Dick” with a conservationist bent, surprises, delights and will keep you on the edge of your seat. Has our own world become too clogged with noise for us to truly hear one another? There’s both devastation and resonance to that fact. As container ships crisscross the oceans carrying our cars and clothes and consumer goods, the songs of whales are being drowned out beneath the surface. If there’s an environmental message in “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52” (how can there not be?), it’s that our world has become too noisy for whales. Zeman finds that the key is to really listen and locate the quiet places where messages can come through. And there’s so much more to learn from interacting with whales, speaking to our own existential questions. In the 20th century, whales evolved in our imaginations from a source of fuel into conscious creatures with whom we could empathize. Zeman doesn’t just offer a depiction of his quest but also examines what whales have meant to humans throughout history, how that’s changed and why. With a little data and a whole lot of hope, Zeman sets sail for the Channel Islands off California with a team of oceanographers and biologists in tow, using Navy sonar equipment, drone cameras and tracking tags to try and find 52. The documentary is a chronicle of Zeman’s seemingly impossible journey to find his white whale. Behind computer screens, aren’t we all lonely whales, sending out our unique signatures, hoping someone might hear them and maybe even respond? “The Loneliest Whale” is a “big mood,” as some might say. “52,” was born, at least in the human imagination.ĥ2 indeed captured the collective unconscious, becoming something of a metaphor or meme for the internet generation, those feeling disconnected the more and more we connected online. Knowing only that its calls didn’t register with other whales, writers speculated that this one was roaming the seas without response. In 2004, after the death of Bill Watkins, one of the lead scientists working on tracking this whale, a paper was published that brought this curious creature to the attention of the public.
In 1989, an underwater sonar system developed and used by the Navy captured the biological sonic signature of a whale registering at 52 hertz of frequency, which is unlike any other whale song. Zeman sets out to answer this question despite unbelievable odds, and like most incredible explorations into the deep, the journey is surprising, though not without reward.Īs with many mysteries, this one starts with a news item that caught Zeman’s eye.
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In the hands of Joshua Zeman, who has tackled urban legends and serial killers in his work (“Cropsey,” “The Killing Season”), this film is a nature mystery, an unanswered question that needs to be solved. “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52” is not your average nature documentary. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials. The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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