Today the observers saw sperm whales and several types of dolphins. I only saw one dolphin and I was not able to identify it. It was a very hot day standing behind the Big Eyes and scanning the ocean surface for animal life. We went off the continental shelf and it is now more than two miles deep. At the end of the day we noticed that there were more birds and Sargassum weed so we know that we are getting close to the Gulf Stream.
As we were returning to our observation positions after lunch, we saw several waterspouts on the horizon. A waterspout is a funnel shaped cloud that occurs over a body of water and brings the water upward to the cloud. They are weaker than land tornadoes. If you click on the picture (or any of the pictures for that matter) it will enlarge.
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