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Related: About this forumSperm Whale Encounter of the Closest Kind - Hauntingly Beautiful
At 598 meters (1,962 ft) below the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, ROV Hercules encountered a magnificent sperm whale. The whale circled Hercules several times and gave our cameras the chance to capture some incredible footage of this beautiful creature. Encounters between sperm whales and ROVs are incredibly rare.
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Sperm Whale Encounter of the Closest Kind - Hauntingly Beautiful (Original Post)
tomm2thumbs
Apr 2015
OP
Yes, the biggest animal that EVER existed on earth, not just the biggest now
IHateTheGOP
Apr 2015
#8
We can all learn a lesson of compassion from these astonishing creatures. Pure beauty.
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#7
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)1. The best part is the sheer joy you sense from everyone there at that moment
and probably a little bit that rubbed off on me watching it.
Love it
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And then there's the sperm whales who adopted a deformed dolphin. Video depicts a very rare interaction between sperm whales and an adult bottlenose dolphin with a spinal malformation (i.e. scoliosis)
Awwwwww....
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)2. Amazing Blue Whale - the biggest animal on our Earth!
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)4. magnificent!!!!
only think I can think of to say
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)8. Yes, the biggest animal that EVER existed on earth, not just the biggest now
2naSalit
(86,804 posts)3. OoooH!!!!!
That made me cry! So magnificent a being... and we are killing them all. I wish we could communicate with them, those of us who want to see them thrive... and not just to say we're sorry that we are killing everything.
Still, I am thankful to have seen this. Thank you for sharing this fleeting view of one of the most magnificent living things in our world.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)5. That is really cool.
Beautiful.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)6. tomm2thumbs
tomm2thumbs
Amazing - just amazing
Diclotican
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)7. We can all learn a lesson of compassion from these astonishing creatures. Pure beauty.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)9. What an amazing animal
The grace....
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)10. Beautiful graceful creature. Thanks for posting this.