Sperm whale protection focus of marine sanctuary creation in Caribbean | 60 Minutes

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and safeguard them from plastic trash, noise pollution and ship strikes.
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[@labananaramarama5502]

PLEASE keep doing what you do! Thankful for you, your team and the project of protecting whales and life!!!

[@dominicanvibe]

Beautiful island 🇩🇲 Dominica is just amazing

[@tobechukwuolumba7337]

These are beautiful sea creatures. Time to heal the world.

[@hntersguild6570]

Dominica thanks you!!!

[@kickingleaves5122]

Such amazing and fantastic creatures. Thank you all for protecting them 💜

[@noemyarias3289]

Wow impressive God bless the ones protecting the precious gift of Mother Nature ❤

[@rblauson]

God bless him, and anyone else dedicating their lives to protect these AMAZING animals. We’ve done enough harm to the oceans. It’s time to give back.

[@jalan5842]

You all need to go to the faros Islands where the slaughter Piolet whales its disgusting

[@OanhSchlesinger]

The damage continues to this day. Sad indeed 😢

[@OanhSchlesinger]

@@jalan5842 why on earth would people act so stupid? Million dollar question.

[@rblauson]

@@jalan5842 it is disgusting. It should be stopped.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Truly magnificent! Thank you for all your hard work saving marine life.

[@MuttvilleSF]

Fascinating! Thank you, Cecelia Vega 👏

[@lupebustillos2051]

Such a beautiful great creature that God created. Our God is an Awesome God!!

[@dixonmatthews1492]

60 minutes are so good i thought they would have an interview with one of the whales

[@takethisl2773]

lmao

[@TimothySlickback]

I love sperm whales, thanks for this!

[@izzyci]

amazing animal worthy of the utmost respect. It breaks my heart our plastic, trash and boats hurt them

[@sandgroperwookiee65]

Spectacular creatures ❤

[@johnhough4445]

In sentiments of one syllable ... brilliant! Thank you for that (and I lied about the syllables-I was still awestruck ...)

[@mysterymayhem7020]

beautiful creatures

[@erin3292]

I like this Cecilia Vega ✨🐳✨

[@cedrics5241]

Beautiful ! 💙💙

[@abby2stars]

❤… thank you to all involved 🙏🏻🎉

[@bebelives]

Awesome....simply awesome.

[@kubuligal2431]

Lovely Dominica 🇩🇲

[@batchelerjr]

That's the kind of sixty minute story you want to See

[@chrisisalive1]

This is awesome! Thank you for doing this story on the Sperm Whale!

[@Mr.Skylight]

They didn’t see anything until the last hour of the last day. certainly worth the wait…

[@anonymouslyagesahanneddorrous]

Amazing! I never nu 4 certain that such aquatic animals lived in the Caribbean!

[@jansvensson1670]

Mind-blowing...😯

[@JBW-Phuket]

Awesome.

[@BloombergDotOrg]

Creating marine protected areas is critical to supporting a healthy ocean. Glad to see our partner Enric Sala of Pristine Seas highlighted here!

[@emiliadumitru8030]

“Let’s keep it going man”! with my salad bowl. “I KNOW I’m going to find them”. He got a keen ear.

[@HelenDouglas-vm9qe]

Magical!!

[@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503]

Bucket list!

[@donnarapado9547]

Truly amazing!!!

[@lostwoods5687]

Cecilia, PLEASE do a piece about singer Luis Miguel. He has a fascinating story.

[@briezzy365]

I love Sperm Whales so much. Petition for a name change, though.

[@lukescullin2948]

Pretty sad to think we feel we have a right to put a percentage on the amount. But I realise it's better than anything. Reserves now!!!

[@frankwolf3860]

Wonderful story! I have to ask: could "we" communicate after a fashion with these whales if, say, a simple child's metal clicker toy was taken into the water...give the same click series as the whale: 5 slow clicks, after the whale gave her series of clicks? Modifying the clicks associated with more specific things, like having a pre-caught squid offered along with, say, 3 quick clicks - pause - three more quick clicks, might slowly create some rapport?

[@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503]

Tag pods of whales with satellite link create a link for major ship lines to adjust course and speed.... First you have to get into the big heads of mariners and make it law.... Save the Whales! Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA ✌️

[@micheleploeser7720]

The Wells perhaps are not actually sleeping perhaps they are taking time reducing the pressure around them so they don’t suffer the bends

[@SamanthaXu-nq7bv]

we need to study whales dreaming 😅

[@Cubes81]

Small Critique to 60 minute interviewers… Please Stop repeating the last sentence of the guest with an inflection. This presumes your audience is not smart enough to follow along. Example: Guest Statement “I realized I was Writing the obituary of the ocean” Interviewer Response “Writing the obituary of the ocean?”

[@brendatenorio5721]

Yes! Sadly, could be too late some species. Many numbers dwindling, collision with boats, pollution, fishing nets and garbage, over-fishing food sources and many other threats.

[@jordanwilliams8040]

Ugh and wind farms 😂

[@JosedeJezeus]

"Sperm" whales need a name change. This creature has an amazing power: powerfully focused echo location that can stun prey! This amazing being deserves a name worthy of its power. Disgustingly ignorant humans that named it.

[@HeartsforJesus25]

They are named after the waxy substance-spermaceti-found in their heads. The spermaceti is an oil sac that helps the whales focus sound. Spermaceti was used in oil lamps, lubricants, and candles.

[@john-smith.]

@@HeartsforJesus25 Yes they killed whales back then to light their lamps...what a waste of life.

[@ZootZinBootZ]

@@HeartsforJesus25 thank you

[@JosedeJezeus]

@@HeartsforJesus25 yea, but it was called spermaceti because it reminded them of sperm. That's just wrong and gross.

[@JosedeJezeus]

@@ZootZinBootZ it was named "spermaceti" because it reminded them of sperm. It's still gross and wrong. *No thank you!* "Sperm" whales deserve a name change.

[@justbecause9645]

I work with several.

[@teenytinytoons]

A marine protecting a marine 🫡

[@tr7b410]

The sperm whales sleep state must move directly from their conscious into their unconscious minds.They don't appear to dream-no body movement.

[@chrismullin8304]

AI was connected to an MRI, and was able to translate the image to text. The subjects were given a picture to think about and the AI succeeded in reading their mind. I wonder what the animals will say, once we understand them?

[@thehipmusicologist]

I was home schooled- how big is a school bus?

[@Theking-y2z1b]

He is the largest predator on earth

[@JohnnyD-u7]

Protect the innocent.✝️🙏🏻

[@jordanwilliams8040]

How about those wind farms? Could this program be more deft and hypocritical 😂

[@skreety0455]

Thank God he still has sperm😊

[@BigPeeWeeUno]

❤❤❤❤🤞🏽 Yes save & respect our animals

[@borderlesssynthetic4164]

❤

[@johntresemer5631]

👍🙏

[@rf8003]

Humans should learn how to respect nature...

[@Fofolamelame7189]

I’m a whale and do not identify as a bus

[@bmorebones]

Damage done by governments and it's corporate brothers say it correctly

[@zouk-uo9dn]

Sa ka fete ?🇩🇲🇩🇲

[@kubuligal2431]

Mweh la.😅

[@freeffree4133]

The adult males are more agressive.

[@rajsensei7712]

what's the name of the interviewer

[@sstarklite2181]

Of course we need to protect all whales, but we also need to protect all humans (think of babies. And we should do that by “forcing” all rich corporations to give every person a Universal Basic Income, and eliminating the wage system of “work or starve.” After all, humans should understand that if we want to force fishermen to stop fishing, in certain areas at certain times, to let the fish repopulate. But first they need a Universal Basic Income. And protecting human babies is more important than animals.

[@ScottJoe]

Lol

[@Bjrn-vc1bv]

Perhaps the also have to decompres

[@Bjrn-vc1bv]

Are you married? Or perhaps still adopting?😍

[@SamanthaXu-nq7bv]

please contact me about sperm whale dreaming research

[@Ketofit62]

If they got a big brain why they train them to communicate? 13:18

[@JosedeJezeus]

Humans are obsessed with size. Just because the brain is big doesn't mean the brain has all of the necessary parts for language and communication. Humans don't have the biggest brain, but we do have all of the necessary parts to understand how the Universe works. That's why we are *The One.*

[@tylercaswell3366]

They've taken out boats before but ok.

[@romulus_]

good

[@marveljones7126]

How did they get a name like that? Cause when you think of Sperm you think of 🤔 yeah that part.

[@jennymyers4492]

Spermaceti is found in the whales head cavity

[@TheBandit7613]

The inside of their large head is filled with a substance that resembled sperm to early whalers. It's not sperm. It's a substance that helps their sonar locate what ever they are looking for, probably prey. So after hundreds of years, the name stuck.

[@porecemusnox8805]

Pretty easy to get an answer to that - if you really are out for that and not for some ... laugh? NOAA Fisheries: "They are named after the waxy substance-spermaceti-found in their heads. The spermaceti is an oil sac that helps the whales focus sound. Spermaceti was used in oil lamps, lubricants, and candles."

[@JosedeJezeus]

Because the humans that named these whales are gross and dumb men. Sperm whales have the ability to focus their echo location into a powerful beam that can stun prey; that's how they hunt giant squids. They deserve a much more AWESOME name, a name that honors their power.

[@petdoctor3]

Remember, republikkkans voted against saving the whales. Every single republikkkan.

[@californiakayaker]

WOW WOW WOW going into my SAILING WHALES AND MARINE LIFE (PLAYLIST) . I'd love to hear what an expert would say about the sailboat sunk recently, they think by a sperm whale ?

[@valerieschreijer6490]

♥️

[@ZootZinBootZ]

Marine sanctuary zone's increase the value of localities nearby

[@peterebanks3]

Oxygen +2 percent

[@NoseCandyDaddy]

There brain 🧠 in comparison to humans by body mass isn’t that big at all , us and Kiler whales would be at the top