Blue whale caught on drone camera off Cíes Isles
Monday, August 20, 2018 @ 10:03 PM
DRONE footage off the coast of Galicia shows a blue whale – the largest mammal on earth - swimming close to the Cíes Isles.
Captured on Wednesday but only just aired, the video shows a whale of an estimated 26 metres (just over 85 feet) in length flipping her tail and exhaling water jets.
The film is not very close-up, so it lacks detail to the naked eye, but the pilots from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) in Galicia say it is the first time a drone has been used in Spain to snap these colossal animals on camera.
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