Dan
Contributor
During a diving trip in Banda Sea with Pindito in last week of November 2022, we saw some whales and free dove with some of them, as shown in the video.
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It’s common enough in Banda Sea that Edi Frommenwiler started to set up trips specially for free diving with whales in October-November when the whales are crossing Banda Sea on their way to Indian Ocean or from Antarctica. Pindito crews were on the lookout for whale exhaling or breaching, then sending drone to get a close up view of them to see if we could free dive with them.That’s awesome. Wow. Wonder how commom it is to get such encounters?
We spent couple hours following them. The skiff dropped us diagonally ahead of them to get a closer underwater as they moved forward. We repeated this until everyone had enough close encounter with them. I certainly did.Wow stunning! What special moments.
The interactions seem quite fleeting because the whales are on the move. Did you feel there was "enough" time spent with them??