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Dear Reader,
Our tour guide started us off by lowering our expectations. We were just outside of the usual migrating period, so if we spotted any humpback whales, we’d be lucky. That said, he promised us spinner dolphins, which felt like a perfectly acceptable substitute.
Once out on the water in our inflatable boat, though, our guide’s eyes grew large. He immediately cut our engine and pointed, where just beneath the surface of the water we saw an enormous shape. Another, then another. We sat in awed silence as these ocean-dwelling leviathans congregated around us — near enough that we could count the barnacles on their skin. For 40 minutes, they dove, they surfaced, they spouted, they breached. It remains one of the most memorable moments of Dot’s life.
And now, good news on this Feel-Good Friday: Humpback whales, once decimated by whaling, are making a comeback, according to a Time Magazine story. “Records suggest that in the 1830s, there were around 27,000 whales, but, after heavy hunting, by the mid-1950s only 450 remained,” the story tells us. But then we hear the good news: “A recent study on humpbacks that breed off the coast of Brazil and call Antarctic waters home during the summer has shown that these whales can now be found in the sort of numbers seen before the days of whaling.”
This is great news for whales, of course (and for whale watchers!), but it’s also great news for the climate. Whales are incredible sequesterers of carbon. “On average, a single whale stores around 33 tonnes of CO2,” Time tells us. “If we consider only the Antarctic humpback whales that breed in Brazil, protecting this population alone has resulted in 813,780 tonnes of CO2 being stored in the deep sea. That’s around twice the yearly CO2 emissions of a small country like Bermuda or Belize, according to 2018 emissions data. That’s because when a whale dies naturally, it exports carbon stored in its gigantic body to the deep sea, keeping it locked up for centuries.”
Whale-sized good news on this Feel-Good Friday.
Gigantically,
Dot
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