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Find out when and where to see sperm whales in wild, and find out how you can swim with them in Dominica. Staring down into the bright blue waters of the Caribbean from your small boat, you wait, engine off. Under the surface emerges a huge mass of grey, and that is it, time to delve under the surface as swimming just beneath, awaiting your visit, is the largest toothed carnivore on earth. Taking time to photograph them, and be photographed alongside them, you bathe in the warm waters of Dominica together. Our sperm whale safari offers you the chance to swim with, and be photographed alongside, these gentle giants as they congregate in the warm waters, and spend a week in tropical Dominica. A unique opportunity to travel in a group of just four guests with our expert photographer, Patrick Dykstra.

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The inspiration for the white whale of Moby Dick, sperm whales have the largest heads, biggest brains, and make the loudest sound of any animal on Earth. Region: Arctic. Destinations: Lofoten, Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland. Sperm whales usually eat a little over kg almost 2, pounds of food per day.

On the swells of the Sea of Cortez, everything looks like a whale. Lulled by disappointment, the rocking boat and general monotony, I drift into torpor. Then, less than half a mile away, a series of unmistakable spouts erupts, and bursts of exhalation carry across the water. The calves and juveniles are 15 to 20 feet long, and some of the larger females are more than 30 feet from head to tail a male would be almost twice as long.