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When you find yourself alone in an ocean, with your thoughts, the dangers that you face are not just external, like whales, sharks, jellyfish or even demotivating people.

I have to face my internal demons, just as much as I have to taste the salt in the sea, feel the chafing on my skin, and acknowledge the whales swimming beside me.

I recently flew to the South Pacific island of Tonga to swim with humpback whales.

And so this is between me and the whales, and at times that feels like a block between you and reality.

Now, you may not care about shellfish, but these changes impact economically important fisheries, like crab and salmon, and they can impact the health of marine mammals like whales.

Predatory deer dogs frolicked along ancient rivers, while their relatives returned to the ocean to become the first otter-like whales.

This isn't about Reddit itself, it's actually about humpback whales.

The whales were getting killed; they wanted to put an end to it.

One of the ways they wanted to do it was to put a tracking chip inside one of the whales.

I study fish, also the bigger things, whales and dolphins.

We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India.

One of the best places in the world to see blue whales is here in this region.

In Sri Lanka, if you go down to the south coast of Sri Lanka, during the northeast monsoon season, you can see blue whales very, very easily.

So, it's not just dogs and cats and whales and dolphins that you should be aware of and interested in on this little journey.

And essentially, the story is this with right whales, that about a million years ago, there was one species of right whale on the planet, but as land masses moved around and oceans became isolated, the species sort of separated, and today we have essentially two distinct stocks.

Now, both species were hunted to the brink of extinction by the early whalers, but the Southern right whales have rebounded a lot better because they're located in places farther away from human activity.

The North Atlantic right whale is listed as the most endangered species on the planet today because they are urban whales; they live along the east coast of North America, United States and Canada, and they have to deal with all these urban ills.

And to draw a contrast with that beleaguered North Atlantic population, I went to a new pristine population of Southern right whales that had only been discovered about 10 years ago in the sub-Antarctic of New Zealand, a place called the Auckland Islands.

This photograph shows my assistant standing on the bottom at about 70 feet and one of these amazingly beautiful, 45-foot, 70-ton whales, like a city bus just swimming up, you know.

You know, I read that the pilgrims, when they landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620, wrote that you could walk across Cape Cod Bay on the backs of right whales.

I'm going to try to take you on a journey of the underwater acoustic world of whales and dolphins.

Dolphins and toothed whales use echolocation.

So the large baleen whales will produce long, beautiful songs, which are used in reproductive advertisement for male and females, both to find one another and to select a mate.

And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to a much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean.

It actually turns out, though, even though we've only known of long-range propagation for a few decades, the whales clearly have evolved, over tens of millions of years, a way to exploit this amazing property of the ocean.

So blue whales and fin whales produce very low-frequency sounds that can travel over very long ranges.

This shows us both that the calls are detectable over hundreds of miles and that whales routinely swim hundreds of miles.

Unlike fins and blues, which disperse into the temperate and tropical oceans, the humpbacked whales congregate in local traditional breeding grounds, so they can make a sound that's a little higher in frequency, broader-band and more complicated.

Humpbacks, when they develop the ability to sing this song, they're listening to other whales and modifying what they sing based on what they're hearing, just like song birds or the dolphin whistles I described.

But in '96 they heard a few weird songs, and it turned out that these strange songs were typical of west coast whales.

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