In a rare sighting for this part of the Mediterranean Sea, two sperm whales were spotted some seven kilometers (4.3 miles) off the northern coast of Israel on Friday.
Video taken at Betset Beach shows one large and one small whale, apparently a mother and her calf. The two were swimming south.
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This is the first confirmed sighting of sperm whales in Israeli territorial waters since the Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center began its research in 1993, and has caused great excitement among marine biologists in Israel and abroad.
Video: Roy Vertzki, Shlomi Marco, Search Results Web results Dana Renninger
February of this year saw another rare visit to Israeli waters when a killer whale was caught on video off the northern coast, between Acre and Nahariya. That whale, identified as a male named Riptide, arrived from the direction of Iceland and at some point became separated from its pod.
Riptide has previously been seen off the coasts of Naples and Beirut.
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