Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and safeguard them from plastic trash, noise pollution and ship strikes.
In December, nearly every member country of the United Nations pledged to protect at least 30% of the world's land and sea by 2030 to reverse the damage done by humans and protect vulnerable species.Sperm whales
They are mostly females here -- families made up of grandmothers, mothers and daughters who stay together for life…nursing and raising their young.It is a pod of sleeping female sperm whales– vertical giants up to 40 feet long suspended near the surface…their nap lasts only about 15 minutes…until the whales are ready to dive again in what can be an hour-long journey for squid thousands of feet down.
Cecilia Vega: You have had a long career in academia, at a top university, and you tried that and decided"not for me." You walked away. Cecilia Vega: What was it about Hurricane Maria that made the leaders of this country say,"We have to do something, we really have to act"? Curt Benoit: You have an underwater microphone which picks up sound from 360 degrees. So what I did: I take a salad bowl with Neoprene. So the hydrophone is kind of hidden, so as it goes out, it actually brings you straight to wherever you hear the sound.Cecilia Vega: So this is a salad bowl from your house.Curt Benoit: It's like—a horse is gallopin' on a hard surface. So if you hear several of them, that means there's a lot of whales there.On the second day, a water spout.
We jumped in the water and a young female swam right to us… she came within feet… at first, her size was terrifying.She made a sound like a creaking door hinge -- it's one of the ways whales communicate and socialize.She had squid in her mouth -- left over from lunch thousands of feet below…
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