Calm seas.
- Bob Perry
- Sep 15
- 1 min read
2025 09–15 SB Channel
Captain Eddy and the crew report glassy calm sees all day. The steep short interval chop we’ve had for the past few days has subsided. Skies were overcast in the morning and then became bright and sunny. Sightings: 2000 common dolphins, 5 humpback whales, 60 California sea lions and one Minke whale.
Dolphin sightings began about 2 miles N of the rigs. There were 1000 of them in this area and they We’re being followed by 3 humpback whales. We started out by watching 2 loosely associated, small whales, with a third one in the distance. One of the two left and joined the distant one to make a new pair. All of them appeared to be subsurface feeding along with the dolphins. There was a brief birdnado.
We moved a few miles W of platform habitat. Here we found a more closely bonded pair of whales that were a little bit larger than the earlier ones. They made a couple of close passes and everybody got good looks. Dolphins began to fill in, and there were probably another thousand but spread over a wide area.
You never know what mother nature has in store.
Bob Perry
NOTE: Deckhand Isabel says one of the whales was another Alaskan migrant.
