Gentle Giants
Depiste having an enourmous size, whales are one of the most mysterious yet gentle creatures living on earth. Their unique traits and strange behaviors attract humans. Despite knowing these creatures, biologists remain viligant about these giants.
Cook Islands, located in South Pacific has a lot of encounters with these marine mammals. These gentle giants have sent shockwaves throughout the community of marine biologists because they seem to be smarter than what we give them credit for. There are still things that we need to learn about these gentle giants.
Famous Marine Biologist
Nan Hauser is a 63-year-old marine biologist. She dedicated her life to studying whales and helping them. She was born in Maine near the borders of Canada. For the past three decades, Nan keeps documenting as many whales as possible, fighting for their rights and their safety.
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According to Nan, one of her rewards in being a marine biologist is getting to swim with whales in an everyday basis. Swimming with something she greatly protects and loves, she was quite used to swimming together with these gentle giants, but one faithful encounter might change her perspective forever.
The Usual Swim
Nan was swimming off on her usual routine in the shores of Ratonga. Together with some colleagues and a boat, they kept track of Nan using a drone while Nan was swimming with a small pod of humpback Whales. Little did she know, something unusual would happen.
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Using a waterproof camera, Nan keeps capturing images of the humpback whales when suddenly a huge male humpback whale weighing over 23 tons and measuring at least a whopping 50 feet, started plunging towards the marine biologist. She then knew that his behavior wasn’t normal at all.
Weird Behavior
Nan knew every whale’s behavior, except this one. Usually when swimming with whales, Nan would be the one approaching the whales in order to document their behavior. This time, something strange is happening as the gentle animal was rushing towards her.
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Trying to remain calm, she still focused her lenses towards the huge humpback whale, documenting this weird behavior head-on. She was still figuring out why the whale was acting strangely. Although she wasn’t concerned at all.
Something’s Not Right
No one is more experienced in swimming with whales than Nan. It’s her work and she’s probably done more dives than other scientists. As a marine biologist and conservationist, her achievements are enough to be recognized as an extraordinary expert.
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When the whale was rushing towards her, she knew by then that she was in big trouble. Whales usually ignore humans but this one specifically was eyeing the marine biologist and was just going straight for her. The whale then rammmed Nan and pinned her to the surface.
Trying To Survive
Nan tried to get away from the beast approaching but she can’t seem to get away and instead gets pushed farther away from the boat and her colleagues. She even tried to swim to the other side of the whale but the huge mammal wouldn’t let her.
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Nan was so helpless at the situation. Despite having a lot of experience swimming with these huge animals, this is the first time she’s experiencing this type of behavior from the animal. The animal is so huge that just a little bit of movement might cause the marine biologist serious injury.
Whale’s Colossal Power
As you already heard, Nan is an expert in marine wildlife specially in whales. Being on that situation pushed her thoughts to think that a small movement from the animal will cause a lot of damage on her body. Just a little bump from the humpback whale can break her bones.
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The ginormous animal keeps pushing her and essentially making her feel nervous as she was dragged away from her boat. Helpless, she keeps thinking why the whale was doing all of this strange behavior, but still, there was another thing the whale could do that made Nan feel scared.