This week, news has been making the rounds of the twin blue whale corpses in Newfoundland, Canada that are decomposing, filling with methane, and risk blowing up in a mighty burst of blubber. While the photos are certainly hard to look away from, we found a video that has us closing the week with some healthier images of whales ingrained in our heads: Drone Whale Watching Hawaii.Eric Sterman, whose epic drone's-eye surf video we featured this past January, is back with another GoPro-drone fusion—this time used exclusively to stare down at some gentle blue giants. The footage was taken from over 500 feet above the Oahu water, enabled by a high-intensity lens from Ragecams. Sterman also used a Dronefly and GoPro Hero 3+, allowing him to shoot as far as a mile offshore.
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Though all of the whales in his awesome video look plenty health, we rated them on a scale of 1-10, guessing how close to exploding these guys are, with 10 signifying: yeah, that whale is definitely going to blow up.
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