Hello, Mr. Dick!

I’ve always been an animal lover, especially when it comes to whales and other deep-sea creatures.

As such, click here for an amazing (accidental) shot from an offshore oil drilling company using a remote video camera to inspect its lines – during which someone pops in to check things out.

Note: The footage is silent, so no: your speakers are not malfunctioning.

Did you play it? If so, that object that swooped into frame was a curious adult sperm whale.

But this footage reminds me of a story I heard on a recent Discovery Channel special on right whale pods off the coast of North Carolina. Sadly, after the 19^th century, these whales were decimated by hunters and due to their slow reproductive cycles, and still struggling to come back from the brink of extinction.

Anyhow, on this special a researcher told a story about him scuba diving one day in a shallow area where right whales are known to frequent, and hovering off the bottom hoping to spot something. For almost an hour, nothing happened – prompting the guy to pack it in, and head back to the surface when suddenly something shoved him hard from behind.

It was a right whale that had bumped into him by accident.