Photo Courtesy Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

I’ve set up a new ‘sister site’ to ‘Rapture’ and ‘Sevengill Shark Sightings,’ called ‘Humboldt Squid Encounters, to document the increasing frequency of encounters between divers and these scary cephalopods.

http://humboldtsquidencounters.org

Feel free to contribute any dive reports, photos or videos of any experience with these animals which you may have had. I will make sure you are given watermarks and full credit.

Photographer Franco Banfi, who took these shots after his team carved through the ice with a handsaw, said: ‘When a whale comes up to us and swims by, it looks you right in the eyes. Sometimes, I’m sure they’re trying to figure out what we are and where we came from.

For copyright reasons, they cannot be reproduced here, but you can view them at the link below:
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1244149/What-doing-Amazing-underwater-photos-beluga-whales-meeting-divers-Arctic-rehabilitation-farm.html#ixzz0d5FKpI4N

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