{"id":536535,"date":"2025-08-06T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536535"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:57:32","slug":"pilot-whales-visit-the-irminger-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/pilot-whales-visit-the-irminger-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Whales Visit the Irminger Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"329\">During the Irminger 12 expedition, the team spotted a group of curious pilot whales near the Irminger Array. The whales approached the area during operations, providing a brief and welcome encounter for those on board.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"469\">Such sightings add to the experience of working at sea and offer a reminder of the diverse marine life that inhabits the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_536537\" style=\"width: 964px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536537\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-536537 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/08\/MED_1527-1-1-954x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/08\/MED_1527-1-1-954x1024.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/08\/MED_1527-1-1-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/08\/MED_1527-1-1-768x824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/08\/MED_1527-1-1-1431x1536.jpg 1431w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/08\/MED_1527-1-1.jpg 1801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-536537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Rebecca Travis, WHOI<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"469\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Irminger 12 expedition, the team spotted a group of curious pilot whales near the Irminger Array. The whales approached the area during operations, providing a brief and welcome encounter for those on board. Such sightings add to the experience of working at sea and offer a reminder of the diverse marine life that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[323],"tags":[142,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536540,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536535\/revisions\/536540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}