A new documentary sets out to capture on film the legendary and viral 52 hz whale
“He didn’t realize how deep we were going with the metaphor,” said Zeman. “I was like, ‘We want to put up the mirror because that’s the only way we can understand it.’ You know, our whole fascination with this whale is not about the whale. It’s with us. That really informs our relationship with the ocean and with the environment.
Zeman’s film also dips back into the history of whaling, as well as the notion of noise pollution from giant cargo ships, which interrupts whales’ communication to a potentially disorienting degree. But the heart ofis the actual search for 52 in the Pacific waters. One expert says that finding a needle in a haystack is an “odds-on favorite” compared to finding a whale in the vast ocean, some 90 percent of which remains uncharted.
You can probably see where this is going, but in case you can’t, what follows is a bit of a spoiler : He didn’t find 52.“I believe it would have been different if we had 14 [days],” he said. “We were so close. Would we have stayed in the area and kind of swam around, I think we would have we would have seen it again or heard it again.” He pointed out that it was on Day 6 that the crew finally got the hang of triangulation of sound and picture and encountered a large group of whales.
Zeman was ambivalent about his unrealized goal—there is a final reveal in the movie that gives some sense of closure and points to a resolution of the loneliest whale storyline, but it’s not quite a substitute for footage of a living, breathing legend. But as Zeman says via voice-over in his film, “Every story has an ending even if it isn’t the one you expected.
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