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 […]
The water around Rarotonga was warm, blue and clear enough to make the open ocean feel almost peaceful. Nan Hauser had entered it many times before. She had spent decades […]
There was no cage between Benoît Girodeau and the open ocean. No reef wall to retreat toward. Only deep blue water, a camera in his hands, and three enormous animals […]
At first, the fish appeared to be moving toward her. Cindy Yang was floating just beneath the surface in the cold water off Norway, her body stretched horizontally as she […]
The calf could still swim. Its mother could not. In March 2024, inside a remote tidal lagoon on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, an adult female orca became trapped […]
The distance between them looked painfully small. A young humpback whale calf surfaced inside a narrow strip of dark water surrounded by broken sea ice. On the other side of […]
The first thing people noticed was that the calf was still breathing. Every few moments, its dark head rose between the white foam, just high enough for the blowhole to […]
At first, it looked wrong. The mother was not keeping her calf close in the open water. She was pushing it away. From the rocky shoreline above the bay, the […]
At first, everyone thought the whale was in the wrong place. The ferry had already slowed as it entered the narrow channel, its white hull moving carefully through the cold […]
At first, it looked almost beautiful. A small boat was moving slowly through the cold blue-green water, leaving a soft wake behind it. The sky was pale and overcast. The […]