can you imagine I’m lying on the sea-ice
I’ve just come out of the water I’ve
been in the water for two hours
photographing narwhals trying to
photograph narwhals underwater which is
next to impossible I’m freezing I’m
hypothermic I can’t move my dream has
been it is too been this has been to
photograph one of these endangered
massive bowhead whales this whales
probably fifty two feet long
that’s no nice sized male around fifty
50-plus feet and so I’m lying on this
ice and the whale comes up and he blows
right beside me but I can’t move I’m
frozen I’m too cold so Jed my assistant
from Oregon goes hey bro and he comes
running over takes my underwater camera
sticks it in my hand and rolls me into
the water and what was amazing is the
visibility was terrible you couldn’t see
anything it was the mixing of fresh
water melting on the sea ice and the sea
water but this whale that weighs
probably more than a hundred tons was so
big that he brought his own body of
water with him he brought this entire
swimming pool of water and encased
himself in it and I was expecting not to
see anything when I rolled in the water
but the water was crystal clear and the
science knew science has come out that
these whales can be up to 250 years old
if you can imagine one of the oldest
living mammals on the planet now the
conservation is what it blew me away
when I’m looking at this moment at this
moment right here that this whale could
have been born before the Industrial
Revolution it survived 150 years of
whaling and now they’re sorry I’m when I
haven’t slept at all in two days so I
get a little emotional just bear with me
now that the biggest threat to this
whale is that with the loss of sea ice
you’re going to get the loss of copepods
with that the species polar bear seals
whales they’re all going to be impacted
by that if you lose ice in the Arctic
you stand to lose an entire ecosystem
and that’s the tragedy in the loss of
sea ice right now and this year we’re
reaching the lowest extend of sea ice in
the summer in in history
I’ve just come out of the water I’ve
been in the water for two hours
photographing narwhals trying to
photograph narwhals underwater which is
next to impossible I’m freezing I’m
hypothermic I can’t move my dream has
been it is too been this has been to
photograph one of these endangered
massive bowhead whales this whales
probably fifty two feet long
that’s no nice sized male around fifty
50-plus feet and so I’m lying on this
ice and the whale comes up and he blows
right beside me but I can’t move I’m
frozen I’m too cold so Jed my assistant
from Oregon goes hey bro and he comes
running over takes my underwater camera
sticks it in my hand and rolls me into
the water and what was amazing is the
visibility was terrible you couldn’t see
anything it was the mixing of fresh
water melting on the sea ice and the sea
water but this whale that weighs
probably more than a hundred tons was so
big that he brought his own body of
water with him he brought this entire
swimming pool of water and encased
himself in it and I was expecting not to
see anything when I rolled in the water
but the water was crystal clear and the
science knew science has come out that
these whales can be up to 250 years old
if you can imagine one of the oldest
living mammals on the planet now the
conservation is what it blew me away
when I’m looking at this moment at this
moment right here that this whale could
have been born before the Industrial
Revolution it survived 150 years of
whaling and now they’re sorry I’m when I
haven’t slept at all in two days so I
get a little emotional just bear with me
now that the biggest threat to this
whale is that with the loss of sea ice
you’re going to get the loss of copepods
with that the species polar bear seals
whales they’re all going to be impacted
by that if you lose ice in the Arctic
you stand to lose an entire ecosystem
and that’s the tragedy in the loss of
sea ice right now and this year we’re
reaching the lowest extend of sea ice in
the summer in in history
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