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Then a really cool thing happened…WHALES!! There were sperm whales all around and I learned a lot about them.

Fun facts to know about. Sperm whales are carnivorous truly loving large squid for lunch. They are born in the warm tropical waters and nurse for a couple years and live with mom for about five years. Then, the males go away in a “pod” to colder water that they can live in comfy because they have much more blubber to insulate their bodies then the females. The males hang together as a group until they reach around thirty when they get fed up with their mates and go solitary. When they get to about 50, they go back to warmer water to look for love and live to about 80. The females really never leave the warmer water and start mating as early as 15.

It was really special to be so close to these guys as they oxygenated for about 5 minutes prior to a dive. When they went down, they always waved their tail (flute) and disappeared with the average dive being about 45 minutes but up to as long as 2.5 hours.