Diving with the whales

Barbados is seeing more whale activities off these shores, says Faheem Patel, dive master with the Dive Shop Ltd and marine photographer.
Patel is reporting that just yesterday a dive team spotted some whales just off the south coast near Worthing.
“This year and especially over the past month we’ve been hearing the whale calls quite often on our dives along the south coast. Sometimes the calls are so loud that we often look back expecting to see a giant behind us. We’ve spotted them from shore and fishermen are reporting seeing them from a distance,” said Patel, who is also a final year medical student at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Patel said there were 12 people on the dive boat at the time adding that he geared up and jumped in the water with the calf. (CM)