Dr. Asha de Vos

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214 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Hi, I'm so pleased to be here.

Oh, yeah.

OK, so whenever I get to tell this story, I get so excited because it takes me back to that moment.

So we were tracking some sperm whales actually off the coast of Sri Lanka.

I was out on deck looking for them.

But actually in the distance, what I did see was a really tall, powerful blow or the exhalation of a whale.

But it was so tall and powerful, I immediately knew that it was not a sperm whale.

It was like a gigantic animal, you know?

And so I got super excited and I told my captain, I was like, 11 o'clock, two kilometers, let's go.

I was telling him to change direction of our entire research expedition, by the way.

And also, you know what?

On this boat, just to say, on this boat, I was working as a deckhand.

So I was going to cleaning toilets and polishing brass.

That was how my career started, right?

So can you imagine, like the person who's cleaning toilets and polishing brass is now asking this expedition to go completely off track.

Because she may have seen what looks like a blue whale, right?

Like, I don't know.

I was clearly living on the edge at that point.

And then luckily for me, the captain was like, sure.

After I said, I think it might be a blue whale.

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