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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two different pairs of Humpbacks visited the
Shearwater during a Plumes & Blooms Research cruise 2/21/2009. We were
operating about 6 miles NE of Santa Rosa Island. In the same general
area we spotted more than a dozen other humpies breaching,
pec-slapping, feeding and doing what whales do.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the early afternoon about 6 miles south of Coal
Oil Point we saw about two dozen Northern Right Whale Dolphin headed east.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Beautiful spring day on the ocean.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dennis
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