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Recordist's notes
Museum trawler Crangon passing through the sea lock in Ostend on its way to the fishing harbour. The whining noise in the second half is the hydraulics of the lock's gate opening. Note the wonderful jazz of the Crangon's 3-cylinder ABC diesel engine. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing... :-) Zoom H4n, built-in microphones
About the place
Ostend is a town of about 69,011 people in Flanders, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 40 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Historic trawler in sea lock, 8400 Oostende, Belgien - Crangon in Ostend sea lock” by fotoralf – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0