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Today we had a nice surprise not too far from the coast! We had a sighting of some sperm whales, but they are usually found in deeper waters than what we saw today! Our lookout had found them right in front of Ponta Delgada, approximately 8 miles from the coast, where the water is around 200m deep.
We had a mother and calf/juvenile, some more females, and most likely a male too. They were foraging, so that meant that they were diving a lot, which resulted in seeing lots of flukes of the sperm whales!
We also tried the hydrophone in one of our boats and they were echolocating!
One of our boats even saw a humpback whale in another area.
In the afternoon trip, we managed to find sperm whales again, after waiting quite some time before they resurfaced. We saw 3 sperm whales.
On the way to another area we saw a few common dolphins as well but they were quite shy. All in all another great day!
Today we also had a special little guest, Daniel, a Portuguese living in Italy. He had a homework about sea turtles in english for school. We think he learned a lot from our trip!
And today was also a very special day for two of our guests, just look at this video to know what happened:
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
