Aquatic Adventures

Whale Tales Season 32:W2

This week, moments after the lucky cookies were handed out, the blows of humpback whales began to appear all around. The first encounter of the week was a male and female resting 50 feet or so below the surface. The male circled the female in a playful way…

Aquatic Adventures

Whale Tales Season 31: W11

Some people explain the Silver Bank and their time spent with humpback whales as magical, spiritual and enlightening. There is something exceedingly enchanting about a full grown, forty-five foot whale turning towards you in the water and looking straight at you with its inquisitive eye. There is also something magical about watching the sun set into the ocean, ninety miles off shore, with twenty other people completely disconnected from the world they knew only days before. Things here on the Silver Bank become simple.

Aquatic Adventures

Whale Tales Season 31: W10

After a calm eight hour crossing from Puerto Plata to the Silver Bank, we moored up around 9am and prepared the tenders for the afternoon. Tom Conlin started the introduction to the Silver Bank by talking to the guests about our process while in the water with the whales, called a “passive in-water whale encounter”, which is an original practice developed by Tom himself over 30 years ago. The method allows guests to quietly and safely enter the water and snorkel with humpback whales.

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Whale Tales Season 31:W9

The N. Atlantic humpback whale mating and calving season on the Silver Bank is three quarters of the way through and with that we see many changes of whale behaviors. Where there was once many small newly born calves, there are larger more adventurous ones. Where there were once many pairs of females and their escorts, there are rowdy groups vying over what females remain. This makes for a very exciting time on the Silver Bank where surface activity is electrifying and the in-water encounters exhilarating.