Saturday September 26, 2009, 5:21 pm
"Suddenly it lunges at the biggest mass of fish, mouth opening wide, throat pouch ballooning with seawater. Even against the tremendous drag created by its gaping maw, flicks of the whale's muscular tail power it through the water. Its jaw snaps shut in an explosion of bubbles. Other hunters circle nearby, waiting for a turn at the feast.

Named for a Norwegian whaling entrepreneur nearly a century ago, Bryde's (pronounced BROO-duhz) are baleen whales, which use meshlike mouth plates to filter food from the sea. "But they're hardly bloated, plankton-straining beasts puttering along at the surface," says photographer Doug Perrine. "They're sleek, predatory missiles," targeting larger, more mobile prey than some other baleen species. Perrine and colleagues were shooting marlins when they saw the rarely photographed whales. Diving with them "was like being on train tracks in the fog," Perrine says, "knowing a high-speed locomotive could appear in an instant," from any direction, without any warning sound."

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Saturday September 26, 2009, 5:28 pm
Thanks Dee.
I live here in Baja they are one of our many whale visiters.

Saturday September 26, 2009, 5:34 pm
Thank you sweetie.

Saturday September 26, 2009, 9:26 pm
Aww..lucky you Daphna..I miss seeing the whales in Gloucester..

Sunday September 27, 2009, 5:55 am
Thannxxx Dee Dee.. I think we need to arrange a scuba diving safari for the girls... that would be awesome..

Sunday September 27, 2009, 9:44 am
Thanks Dee - this was great!

Sunday September 27, 2009, 9:48 am
I sit here in the middle of Oklahoma in the Middle of the US and close my eyes and just try to imagine...the sound of the waves when they burst through and the sounds of them blowing water out of the blow holes...ahhhhhhhhhh to be there to actually see, feel and experience it all is such bug wish of mine....

Big Gorilly Hugs

Sunday September 27, 2009, 2:53 pm
Thanks Dee

Sunday September 27, 2009, 6:27 pm
I have been diving with sharks but I tell ya if that whale charged at me my heart would stop.