Blue whale returns to Maharashtra waters

May 21, 2015 10:38

A "big shape' and a "blow' greeted marine biologists on a boat off the Sindhudurg coast two weeks ago. In search of dolphins for a study on behalf of the Indian governmentand United Nations Development Programme, the team spotted Bryde's whales just 600 metres off the coast. And it was not the first time.

On March 28, the team had sighted a bigger surprise, a pair of blue whales, near Kunkeshwar, 2.7 km offshore at a depth of 16 metres. Since then, they have spotted members of a pod of four Bryde's whales four times '" April 11, 16, 30 and May 6, near Achra, Tarkarli, Talashil and Sarjekot, at a depth of 15 m.

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