The guy from Entourage will use his fame to find the world's loneliest whale — theverge.com

An Entourage meta-celebrity. A Seattle microbrewer. A drummer for a goofy sweatshorts-clad pop band. Adrian Grenier is all these things, but he's something else too: a secret whale enthusiast. The actor is about to embark on an expedition in search of the world's loneliest whale — if his Kickstarter project gets funded, that is. The world's loneliest whale was first discovered in 1992 at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Puget Sound. As Leslie Jamison points out in her essay 52 Blue, researchers heard the whale's strange call through a network of hydrophones planted along the ocean floor. The call came in at 52 hertz, hence the whale's nickname "52." The frequency is extraordinarily high for blue whales, whose calls usually fall somewhere between 15 and 20 hertz. As scientists studied the whale, they found he was always alone — crushingly, disappointingly alone. Like the plot of a down-and-out country song, no other whales were responding to Lonely Whale's strange, falsetto calls.

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