WHALES AT PLAY
SOMERSAULTS IN OCEAN. SCENE IN ATLANTIC. NEW YORK, - August 15. Seven schools of whales encountered about 170 miles east of the Nantucket Lightship entertained passengers and crew of the Cunarder Aquitania on the trip across the Atlantic from England to. New York.
The big mammals, which were head, ed north for' cool water, ranged in length from 30 to 35 feet, and therp were eight or nine of them in each school, i
SeVeral of the whales p'ut on an exhibition,' leaping high o ut of the water and»falling down again with great splashings. In one instance two of them were observed to swim circles around each , other at great speed and then suddenly rise up into the air opposite each , other, putting, their heads together as if in the act of kissing before falling backwards again into the sea. . ' » Chief Officer Mott, of the Cnnarder, who has pearly 35 years of, sailing experience to his Credit, ahd is regarded itt the North Atlantie trade as ah authority oil the habits of whaleSj said that never before had he seen whales turn somersaults on the surface of the ocean v
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1932, Page 7
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193WHALES AT PLAY Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1932, Page 7
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