What's This Barge All About?

That floating building in the Bedford Basin isn't a houseboat, a secret lair, or a giant aquarium. It’s actually a high-tech laboratory that tests underwater sound equipment for the Canadian Navy and other clients. It’s called the DRDC Atlantic Acoustic Calibration Barge, and it’s one of the coolest things you’ll find in Halifax Harbour.
Story by Sheldon Macleod, SaltWire
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[@darrenbellefontaine1130]

Very cool my father worked at DREA Dartmouth from 1965 till he passed in 1995 and frequent that barge many times.
I do believe he took me there when I was young I know security was nothing like it is now.
His business card say he was a Senior Technologist in Environment Acoustics Group other than that not really sure what he did lol.

[@paulcrawford6206]

I was a sonar operator in Sea Kings, one day a new co-pilot asked me if I had any signals on my sonar, I told him, "just whales talking!" He laughed, I suggested he flick his Sonar button, meanwhile I told him I had recently read an article in National Geographic that said they think whales can communicate hundreds ,maybe even thousands of miles away from each other in the right thermocline, (same temperature levels in the ocean) . He listened ,then asked me if I had any idea what the whales may be saying? I told him, I knew exactly what they were saying, they were saying, "Can you still hear meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee???

[@paulcrawford6206]

My father was the Night Watchman, on board the DREA/BIO lab in Birch Cove, Bedford Basin, for many years, he found places to Nap. If it was me out there all night, I would have been fishing for cod, haddock, eels, and probably a handpot for the odd lobster! He did buy lobster from the few licensed boats in the Basin, he also bought direct from the lobster boat, when working in Rockingham rail yard for 30 yrs. Brought them home, set them crawling on the kitchen floor, went to bed, my mother captured them and cooked them.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

That's where they train the killer porpoises. [wink-wink]