Costa Rica Documentary Reveals Why Whales From Two Hemispheres Choose Golfo Dulce
There is one stretch of water on the planet where humpback whales from the far north and the far south both come to give birth, and it sits at the southern tip of Costa Rica. Golfo Dulce, the deep inlet that separates the Osa Peninsula from the mainland, receives mothers that have swum up from the freezing waters off Antarctica and mothers that have come down the Pacific coast of North America. Nowhere else do the two populations overlap. Researchers who worked on a new Costa Rican documentary about the gulf call it the womb of the Pacific. That documentary, Costa Rica, Cradle of Whales , premiered Wednesday night on Canal 7 as the first episode of a revived nature strand called El Planeta Azul , or The Blue Planet. The full film went online free after broadcast. The production took three years. Camera teams worked in Golfo Dulce and in Bahía Ballena, the bay farther north where the whale watching industry is concentrated, filming in high definition and 4K with drones, underwater ...