The Humpback Whale Research Project, Bermuda was started in 2007 by Andrew Stevenson (pictured left). The goal of the project is to broaden our knowledge of our oceans and these magnificent animals. We research and collect visual and acoustics data on the humpbacks as they migrate past Bermuda. The project is endorsed by the Dept. of Conservation Services and the Ministry of Environment and the Bermuda Zoological Society; and supported financially by a broad base of Bermuda’s residents, corporate sponsors and by volunteers who help in a myriad of ways.

Phase I - 2007 to 2009 - Completed

From 2007 to 2009 we documented the lives of humpback whales with underwater high-definition video footage and hydrophone recordings. In March 2010, the 60-minute documentary film 'Where the Whales Sing' was released. Read Phase I Final Evaluation Report.

If you have photos of the underside of the whales' flukes, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it so we can add them to our catalogue.

More details about Andrew and his various projects and adventures are available in Andrew's bio.

Three (3) minutes of our underwater video of humpback whales now showing on the wall in the arrivals hall at the Bermuda airport.

Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle...  shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED Prize wish “I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.”.

Andrew's Latest Whale Diary Entry

Check out NOAA's latest satellite-tagged whale positions in the diary archives 

"Where the Whales Sing" wins the "Best Emerging Underwater Filmmaker" award at the BLUE Ocean Film Festival in Monterey, California.

http://www.blueoceanfilmfestival.org/films/2010filmfinalists.html 

For our summer holidays we spent a month in August in the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy. We had two great weeks at College of the Atlantic/Allied Whale in Bar Harbor and then a week in St Andrews, New Brunswick and then a week at Brier Island on the end of Digby Neck in Nova Scotia. Here are some photos from our whale watching trips in Brier Island. Elsa seemed to find her own "Magical Whale", a calf that was all over our stationary zodiac for an hour or so. Elsa not only has an affinity for animals of any kind, she's an avid photographer, as you can see from my photos of her, and her photos of the whales.

The calf seemed to want to make contact with Elsa. We were stationary with the engine off.