From a distance, it looked like thick fog across the horizon. But as the ship drew closer, the ocean bubbled as 150 fin whales, the planet's second-largest creatures, dived and lunged against the water's surface.
The rebounding of the fin whales’ population offers “a sign that if you enforce management and conservation, there are chances for species to recover”.
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, fin whales in the Southern Ocean have rebounded and returned to their historic feeding grounds, according to a new survey.