'A once-in-a-lifetime experience,' a whale as big as the largest dinosaurs makes a special appearance in ocean off the Jersey Shore.
"A once-in-a-lifetime experience," a whale as big as the largest dinosaurs makes a special appearance in ocean off the Jersey Shore.
“For pretty much everyone on the boat, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said staff marine biologist“We’re on the water 200 days out of the year,” the naturalist said. “We’ve been collecting data for over 10 years now, and this was our only ever sighting of a blue whale.”, said her agency was able to confirm the creature sighted was a blue whale.
“Our research will contribute to the population dynamics and distribution of blue whales in the Western North Atlantic by sharing our blue whale sighting with the Mingan Island Cetacean Study,” Laurino said.The American Star had set out at about 9 p.m. the night before on one of the research center’s 24-hour pelagic, or open sea, expeditions.
“Then as we got closer to it, eventually we got to see the body. It was the largest animal by far that any of us had ever seen in our lives. It was huge.” And there was its color. Above the water, the animal’s skin was a mottled blue-gray. But “while it was underneath the water, we saw this really light blue, like an aquamarine color, swimming just below the surface. And that was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before,” Laurino said.
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