There was a collective gasp of awe and astonishment from everyone on deck as the humpback whale breached about 200 yards away.

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As the whale-hunt began, he and his people showed up with their flagship and a smaller boat painted to resemble a killer whale, so as to scare the grey whales away.

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Ambergris is a natural excrement thought to be used by the whale as a digestion aid and is expelled from its abdomen often while hundreds of miles away from land.

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Without looking away, she then punches a button to activate a satellite phone and calls in the whale's coordinates to a worker on the ground.

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