Passengers on board the whale watching boat Náttfari were lucky enough to encounter a blue whale during a recent trip in Skjálfandaflói bay, North Iceland. Blue whales are the largest mammals on Earth and sightings such as this are extremely rare.
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“There was much life to be seen in the ocean that day and we spotted numerous dolphins and a mink whale. When the blue whale appeared, people were delighted and began to cheer. She came pretty close and slapped her tail a number of times,” Helga Kristín Torfadóttir, who was among Náttfari’s passengers, told Vísir.
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Blue whales are migratory animals and will travel to cold waters in spring for feeding. At 30 metres (98 feet) in length and weighing190 tonnes, the blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived. The animals were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until protected by the international community in 1966.
Passengers on board the whale watching boat Náttfari were lucky enough to encounter a blue whale during a recent trip in Skjálfandaflói bay, North Iceland. Blue whales are the largest mammals on Earth and sightings such as this are extremely rare.
Read more: Enter the world of the gentle giants
“There was much life to be seen in the ocean that day and we spotted numerous dolphins and a mink whale. When the blue whale appeared, people were delighted and began to cheer. She came pretty close and slapped her tail a number of times,” Helga Kristín Torfadóttir, who was among Náttfari’s passengers, told Vísir.
Read more: A blue whale skeleton to become part of the Whale Museum in Húsavík
Blue whales are migratory animals and will travel to cold waters in spring for feeding. At 30 metres (98 feet) in length and weighing190 tonnes, the blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived. The animals were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until protected by the international community in 1966.
