DAREWIN

We are an international group of audio engineers, researchers, physicists, cinematographers, journalists, freedivers, and ocean lovers who believe cetaceans have an incredible capacity for intelligence and communication.

In the past seven years, we have collected dozens of hours of wild cetacean behavior and click communication audio and video footage, the largest collection of its kind. We provide this data in an open-source platform free-of-charge to physicists, linguistic scientists, and any other professional researchers interested in better understanding cetacean echolocation and click communication.

What's allowed our team such intimate access to these animals is that we freedive with them. Unlike noisy scuba or ROVs, our freediving approach doesn't scare off the animals. They don’t swim away, and they don’t attack. They become curious. Often, they welcome us into their pods and send us communication clicks. They are, in essence, reaching out to us. DAREWIN’s natural and unobtrusive freediving approach offers us a rare glimpse into one the least understood — and fascinating — creatures on the planet.