Looking for a Hydrophone (underwater mic)

[atlisaevar]

hi, my name is atli and i am a student in SAE liverpool doing audio engineering. i am doing a project on underwater recordings and am looking for a hydrophone to buy but to my surprise i canīt seem to find one. very few sites have hydrophones for sale and distribution so i am now trying to find a local store in liverpool that might have one. i have found nothing and some of the stores even donīt know what a hydrophone is.....:confused:

oh, a hydrophone is an underwater microphone... :cool:

so if anyone knows of a store in liverpool or near liverpool that might have a hydrophone for sale PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know. thanks.

[PeteM]

hi, my name is atli and i am a student in SAE liverpool doing audio engineering. i am doing a project on underwater recordings and am looking for a hydrophone to buy but to my surprise i canīt seem to find one. very few sites have hydrophones for sale and distribution so i am now trying to find a local store in liverpool that might have one. i have found nothing and some of the stores even donīt know what a hydrophone is.....:confused:

oh, a hydrophone is an underwater microphone... :cool:

so if anyone knows of a store in liverpool or near liverpool that might have a hydrophone for sale PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know. thanks.

You could build your own
http://sonar-fs.lboro.ac.uk/uag/products/products_hydrophone.html

Failing that I got lots of hits on Google some of which were under US$300 although most where up to Ģ1000

[atlisaevar]

Thanks for that Pete, but iīm not really the building kind of guy.... :( i read that link though and itīs a good one, but i just donīt have the skills required for building my own unfortunately...

and yeah, sorry but i forgot to say in my post that i have a very low budget, something like a hundred pounds would be my maximum, possibly a bit higher if i have no other options.

i did manage to find one i like for 79 euros on an italian site but they are on holiday and my experiment is due in two weeks.....

thanks for your input though, but i have actually been looking for this a lot for the past weeks, so my best chance to find one is if someone knows of a small store somewhere close to liverpool thatīs not on the internet or something....

:o :o :o :o :o

[Wills]

http://www.dolphinear.com/

May turn up in a couple of weeks if you buy online or contact them to see if they have a UK affiliate?

Site says:

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