Photo from Museo de la Ballena, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. This photo is use for enviromental education.
Found by fishermen off Chalky Inlet who sent photos through.
All of G pod and Utensils spotted. Pinchy nesting the end of her pregnancy.
Grand Cachalot. Près du bateau de pêche.
A shrimper pulled up the first Goblin shark observed in the Gulf of Mexico since 2010. The length was estimated to be about 15 feet. Location approximate from news reports.
While on the Carnival Breeze cruise, I spotted an orca possibly hunting large fish. I will post other images with this.
Cachalote varado en manglar, archipielago de los colorados, norte de pinar del río.
Hembra juvenil de 9.20 m.
See also video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuZoL5Urmmo
Stranded alive but was euthanized
Large adult male sperm whale in the 40-50ft range stuck on sandbar roughly 50 yds off the beach. Whale was alive and breathing as of 2:45pm when I left. FWC, Mote Marine, as well as local police and sheriff department on scene had a portion of the beach roped off.
This one is an insane story. I got a tip that a male sperm whale had beached down in Venice Beach FL, just about an hour south of where I live. Took the chance with two of my friends and we ended up staying the night. We were essentially the only ones that saw him pass away. Once the officials started gathering, (MOTE, CMA, FFAW, etc.) we heard that they had no idea what happened during the night. We were able to inform them and once they found out how long we had stayed they asked if we wanted to help out with the necropsy! One of the most beautiful animals I’ve ever seen. We also got to fill out a Mortality report, fully documenting the events that happened during the night, including video, illustrations, and images.
The three of us named him “Orion” due to the constellation that was above him while he was still alive. We miss you Orion.
The final statistics was that he was a male individual, that was 44 feet long, and weight approximately 70,000 pounds. He was also underweight, most likely due to the still as of yet undetermined cause of death.
Dozens have been seen in the area in recent days. Some photos have been taken with a more top down view by others on scene to show more of the body