Out of sight of shore, the monotony of water is broken by a welcome discovery: a whale on the horizon. It’s swimming nearer, near now, and coming straight for your fishing boat. Feet away, the 60-foot sperm whale isn’t slowing down—what do you do?
“It became vividly clear that the size of the whale had increased as the distance between us decreased. Interest had turned to amazement, amazement had turned to alarm,” Josh Churchman, one…