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We're having a good time.

Oh, God.

Doctor?

Hello.

Take a seat, please.

Oh.

Relax. Just relax.

Yeah. And is this a path

of where whales feed?

Like, you were pointing out

to me the...

Ah, that's not bad.

I mean, let's face it,

we don't often get a chance to see this.

Hey, there you are.

See the whales?

Yeah, I saw them.

It was beautiful.

Why didn't you come get me?

Babe.

Roger went through an entire

book about Antarctic pattern.

Page after page. What am I gonna do?

Interrupt him in the middle?

I'm glad you're here though.

I'm glad you got to see them.

Um, I wanna sit

at the table with Roger,

before the seat's taken.

Can we go in?

- Can we go in?

- Okay.

Okay, come on.

Yeah?

You know, you go,

save me a seat, though.

- Are you sure?

- Will you save me a seat?

I'll save you a seat.

You think it can make any difference that

the sound was at this end of the boat

and the engines were

at this end of the boat

and the whales were

possibly out here?

The engines are not the source

that makes the loud noise.

It's the propeller itself.

Oh, okay. So, if we were

in a small boat...

I've read that chapter

of your book

and in the 60s, weren't you lying down

in your boat listening to them at night?

Oh, yeah, that's with everything

turned off, and that's a sailboat.

Right.

I think probably they did hear it.

They could have heard

some of which you were doing,

very, very faintly.

The other trouble is,

the moment we're asking to hear it

is just as part of its head

is breaking the surface.

And that's generating

a lot of noise.

So, I mean the conditions are...

No, no, it's good,

it's good, I like it.

The conditions are

certainly not favorable...

- Yeah.

- ...for the possibility.

If everything was completely quiet and

stopped and we're not moving forward

and we were in some little harbor somewhere

away from the ocean traffic noises...

Lighter trouble?

Pretty much always.

I thought there was

no smoking on this boat.

I didn't hear that.

I'm... I'm Chloe.

Chloe Harrison.

Captain Emerson.

Well,

I probably shouldn't be smoking anyway.

Why is that, I mean,

aside from the obvious?

The black and white

is their camouflage

in this fairly gray,

black-white environment.

And if one adult

walks away from its nest

and leaves the egg exposed,

and a skua comes in,

the immediate birds right next

to it might peck at the skua.

But they're not

getting off their egg.

So, if you were dumb enough to

get off your egg, tough luck.

These guys actually do lay two eggs,

these rockhoppers.

...what attracts them,

and sometimes they just have minutes to eat

then bigger vultures

come and kick them out...

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