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Today we started with a sea so calm that it felt like we were flying across the ocean. We encountered a very social sperm whale family. We never got to see any flukes as they were not doing feeding dives, only being social. We also encountered common dolphins and playful bottlenose dolphins and in both groups we had some old friends. Among the common dolphins we saw Victor, a dolphin with a flopped dorsal fin. And among the bottlenose dolphin we saw Broken Jaw, and s/he still looks really healthy and fat. Plus a hammerhead shark. In the afternoon we started with a large group of pilot whales with lots of young calves. Later we got to see a sperm whale breach twice. We stayed a long time enjoying these whales before we got a fluke saying “bye” to us and we continued. Around the whales we also had common dolphins and a loggerhead turtle.
Photos from the morning:
Fluke from the morning (far away)
Sperm whale logging
Watching a sperm whale from our catamaran
Sperm whale adult and calf pair
Bottlenose dolphins
“Broken Jaw”
Our zodiac boat with an active group of common dolphins
Our zodiac boat out on the water
Photos from the afternoon:
Sara cleaning the ocean
Pilot whale mother and calf pair
Pilot whale calf
Sperm whale fluking
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
