Sperm whale video

Last year, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) was checking out undersea piping 900 meters down in the Gulf of Mexico when a sperm whale swam up to check out the robot. Appin Scientific obtained the amazing video clip and posted it to a Marine Mammal Research and Conservation list.
Link to YouTube video, Link to Appin Scientific (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)

[#1 posted by Giovanni , October 8, 2007 12:09 PM]

It's amazing that something that big can seem to come out of no where.

I heard of a guy that was night diving in the arctic circle. Visibility was really low and you could only see a few feet. He turned and his light was on a giant eye as big as his head just a foot away.

Inside of your dry suit wouldn't be very dry after that.

[#2 posted by A New Challenger , October 8, 2007 12:31 PM]

Speaking of special guest appearances in underwater pipe videos, Crab vs. Pipe is a nice little physics lesson that took the Internet by storm a couple years ago. It was fun trying to find a working link to the video in the pre-YouTube days.