We were Blue Water Hunting, looking for Tuna,Wahoo ,Mahi Mahi or whatever
big pelagic fish on our warm clear waters of Puerto Rico.
Water are extremely deep, but this pelagics are actually in the water column
closer to the surface, not much deeper that 30 meters, and most come very close to the surface curios to investigate anything new or whatever mught look like a bait ball so they can eat.
It had been a really pretty day, Sunny, windless, water was calm, we had found a few mahi mahi and my friend had just shot a wahoo when all of a suden a big shape appears at the "limit" of visibility, water is so clear that
we can see things from way over 100 feet away, so normally things look small and just keep growing as they aproach, so seeing this thing that looked
big from a long distance was disconcerting, we though maybe a big tiger shark aproaching to fight for our wahoo.
When it was close enough and we realiced it was actually a whale, we thought it was a Humpack whale, since we see them often, normally we can hear them from a distance, but this one was diferent, it was fast, agile, xtremely curious, and it had the distintive pectoral fins of the smallest of the balleen whales, a Minkie Whale, I have never seen one underwater, and I thought we did not had them in our waters.
This gorgeous animal stayed with us , and we turned from hunters to Photographers in an instant, our freediving skills help us take good pictures underwater, an our hunting skills allow us to allow animals to get close to us without fear, and we took advantage of it, not to mention how humble one feels when such creatures give us the priviledge of their company.
One day I will never forget.
big pelagic fish on our warm clear waters of Puerto Rico.
Water are extremely deep, but this pelagics are actually in the water column
closer to the surface, not much deeper that 30 meters, and most come very close to the surface curios to investigate anything new or whatever mught look like a bait ball so they can eat.
It had been a really pretty day, Sunny, windless, water was calm, we had found a few mahi mahi and my friend had just shot a wahoo when all of a suden a big shape appears at the "limit" of visibility, water is so clear that
we can see things from way over 100 feet away, so normally things look small and just keep growing as they aproach, so seeing this thing that looked
big from a long distance was disconcerting, we though maybe a big tiger shark aproaching to fight for our wahoo.
When it was close enough and we realiced it was actually a whale, we thought it was a Humpack whale, since we see them often, normally we can hear them from a distance, but this one was diferent, it was fast, agile, xtremely curious, and it had the distintive pectoral fins of the smallest of the balleen whales, a Minkie Whale, I have never seen one underwater, and I thought we did not had them in our waters.
This gorgeous animal stayed with us , and we turned from hunters to Photographers in an instant, our freediving skills help us take good pictures underwater, an our hunting skills allow us to allow animals to get close to us without fear, and we took advantage of it, not to mention how humble one feels when such creatures give us the priviledge of their company.
One day I will never forget.
