Fullerton College marine scientist Sean Chamberlin videotaped a majestic blue whale shooting water from its blow hole then heading into a dive off Dana Point, where four of the creatures came near a sightsighting boat of Friday.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.“It was a great day for blue whales!,” Chamberlin says. “In our short, two hour tour off Dana Point today, a group of 46 whale watchers, including me and my mom, saw four blue whales, a mother-calif pair, and two 75-foot behemoths, one of which stayed on the surfaced and lounged around for several minutes.
“We got within spraying distance of its blow, really close at one point … The other one showed flukes at least three times. The crowd cheered. Some folks got spectacular shots.”
Chamberlin videotaped the whale while traveling aboard Ocean Adventures, a catamarran out of Dana Point Harbor.
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That wasn’t that cool
I thought that was pretty cool. T o see something so beautiful so close was amazing
anything like this is simply amazing.