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LOCATION: Norway
STORY: Having a highly intelligent apex predator looking directly at me while scanning my body with a form of echolocation that defies even human’s best technology, should probably be intimidating. But never once did I feel threatened. Having them scan my body with their sonar instead felt like an honor. With their eyes staring straight into mine, they showed genuine curiosity as to what I was, why I was there, and why I’m too slow to catch a herring. But never, ever was there any feeling of intimidation or threatening body language. Similarly to my 8 years working with the North Atlantic humpback whales, when the orcas projected their sonar at me, not only could I feel it resonating in the air-space behind my camera housing’s 9.5” dome port, but also in my lungs and other air spaces in my ears and sinuses. What a privilege it is to feel the non-verbal language of a separate species who is trying to learn about me
For more info about the Norway expedition, check out this blog post.