We’ve completed over 700 whale-watching trips and have only seen a beaked whale once. This rare sighting occurred during our 22-hour, all-day deep-water whale-watching expedition to the canyon, a journey we undertake about five times a year—only two trips took place last year. The majority, 98%, of our trips are in the shallow waters of NJ/NY. This isn’t about windmills; it’s about the beaked whales that inhabit the deepest parts of the ocean, far from where windmills are being sited. These whales can dive to depths of 2,000 meters below the surface, where the water is freezing, pitch black, and seemingly impenetrable. At these depths, no light penetrates, and the crushing pressure is beyond human endurance. How and why do they dive so deep? I really don’t see how this is whales death is related to windmills or survey boats. when we see these whales surfers they surface for maybe 30 seconds to a minute before they do another deep dive they were beautiful to see. We were lucky that there was three or four them in the area, but they didn’t come up for 20 minutes each other time, thank God when we had three or four of them was only like 10 minutes between one surfacing somewhere near us. There are many reasons people are opposed to windmills being located in the ocean, but the odds that be well that had anything to do with survey boats or windmills is slim at best.
