Through 11 days of searching for "good whales" in Tonga, on the superb ship NAI'A, this short film shows highlights from our favourite in-water encounter of the expedition.
In perfect weather on Day #4, we came upon the perfect whale. For hours, the beautiful young female danced with us and around us, building confidence and curiosity in us to the point that we could have touched her- it was the full eyeball-to-eyeball whale encounter.
The magic was over the moment when a herd of (what we assume were) horny males decided they had better things to do with her and broke up the party. The bastards. Bubble streams are a sign of aggression that you often see between rival males during a "heat run". These are common topside sights during the humpback mating season, but we got a rare underwater glimpse of it. Our girl had attracted the runners to the tiny patch of vast blue we were floating in.
After much hooting, and a bit of hollering, we returned to our ship with sh!t-eating grins that would be stuck on our faces for days.
Camera and Edit: Undersea Productions
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Music: Morten Malvik
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2 сен 2013
