The rescue boat moved slowly away from the shallows. Behind it, a large male orca followed under the pull of a harness. His tall dorsal fin cut through the grey […]
The small wooden boat moved through the cold water with an unexpected passenger behind it. A rope stretched from the stern and disappeared beneath the surface. Farther back, a dark […]
The floating cage moved slowly through the cold coastal water. A tugboat pulled it south, leaving a long white wake behind the rough wooden frame. Inside the enclosure, a massive […]
For a brief moment, the small body beside Corky represented something no marine park had achieved before. The newborn was alive. He had survived the birth, reached the surface and […]
The crew first noticed the smaller black fin after the net had already begun to close. It surfaced inside the enclosure for less than a second, disappeared beneath a line […]
The abandoned net had settled across the shipwreck like a second skeleton. Its lines clung to rusted metal, stretched across openings and disappeared into the dark blue water beyond the […]
Dave Seymour was still lying flat on the board when the ocean beneath him seemed to explode. One moment, the hydrofoil was moving normally across the water off Queensland’s coast. […]
Boris Ibáñez had been fishing alone for some time when a dark shape broke the surface behind his kayak. It was only a fin. From that distance, there was no […]
Hamish Stewart was looking down into cold New Zealand water, searching for scallops, when the people on the boat saw something he could not. Three dark dorsal fins were moving […]
Nan Hauser had spent nearly three decades studying whales. She knew how quickly a calm encounter could change. She understood the danger of swimming beside an animal powerful enough to […]