Imagine for a moment you are battleship engaged in some mortal cat and mouse game with an enemy submarine.<\/p>\n
Suddenly out of the deep blue gloom a long grey torpedo shaped object comes into view heading directly for midships.<\/p>\n
With no time for evasive maneuvers, counter measures are your only hope now.<\/p>\n
Closer and closer it gets until you realise it is not a torpedo after all. It is the submarine about to ram you!!<\/p>\n
Ok, so I have played up the drama just a little but actually having 25 tonnes of grey ballistic whale swimming directly at you comes with its own unique combination of fear, panic, distress, acceptance and joy.<\/p>\n
In the future if I ever find myself targeted by a large grey underwater ballistic object I sincerely hope it is a humpback whale.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Ballistic Joy ‘ 1\/125s f\/6.3 ISO160 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine for a moment you are battleship engaged in some mortal cat and mouse game with an enemy submarine. Suddenly out of the deep blue gloom a long grey torpedo shaped object comes into view heading directly for midships. With no time for evasive maneuvers, counter measures are your only hope now. Closer and closer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1644,1671,1646,1643,1639,70,192,1641,1670,29,1642,1638,1640],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cetacean","tag-gerkin","tag-humpback","tag-kingdomoftonga","tag-megapteranovaeangliae","tag-ocean","tag-swimming","tag-tonga","tag-torpedo","tag-travel","tag-vavau","tag-whale","tag-whalewatching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}