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            16.07.2025 – Close encounter with a whale
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            17.07.2025 – The beauty and the beast

            Published by Horst Schulte on July 24, 2025

            The Black scabbard (Aphanopus carbo) is a deep sea fish living around the waters of Madeira. It is not the most beautiful animal with its large slender black body and huge pointy head with large teeth, but important for the people living on Madeira and the tourists visiting this island. It is part of the traditional cuisine of this island and that is the reason it is fished here. 

            Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are beautiful animals. The coastal variant has a slender grey body and a white belly and their curious nature makes them beautiful animals to encounter out there in the ocean.

            Today could appreciate the tale of the beauty and the beast. On our trip on the ocean we encountered some Bottlenose dolphins swimming close to a Black scabbard fishing vessel. Later on we found the head of a Black scabbard at the surface floating. This fish most probably got stolen by a Bottlenose dolphin from the long line with which the fishermen catch these fish. Naturally both species would never meet, as the fish lives deeper than the dolphin can dive, but with humans as mediator this story can be told.

            By Horst Schulte

            Sightings of the day

            Ribeira Brava

            09:00 Bottlenose dolphins, Atlantic spotted dolphins

            13:00 Bottlenose dolphins

            16:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Blainville’s beaked whale

            Stenella

            09:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Atlantic spotted dolphins, Sperm whale

            13:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Sperm whale

            16:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Blainville’s beaked whale







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