On June 19, Domenic Biagini, founder of Gone Whale Watching San Diego, hoped to spot some blue whales off of San Clemente Island, which is owned by the United States Navy. However, that’s not exactly what he said he found. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/whale-watcher-alleged-diesel-fuel-slick-san-diego-coast/509-6291a04b-dd84-435d-a518-adf68b96665d | CBS 8 San Diego
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On June 19, Domenic Biagini, founder of Gone Whale Watching San Diego, hoped to spot some blue whales off of San Clemente Island, which is owned by the United States Navy. However, that’s not exactly what he said he found. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/whale-watcher-alleged-diesel-fuel-slick-san-diego-coast/509-6291a04b-dd84-435d-a518-adf68b96665d | CBS 8 San Diego
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "⚠️CLOSE CALL⚠️ A gray whale mother with a brand new calf narrowly avoided multiple disasters today in San Diego waters. A US Customs vessel was flying towards the harbor at over 30mph completely unaware of the whales’ presence and narrowly avoided colliding with this vulnerable cow/calf pair thanks to a last second maneuver at the frantic urging, hailing, and shouting from our boat. A private fishing boat made almost the identical mistake a few minutes later. Final
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "⚠️CLOSE CALL⚠️ A gray whale mother with a brand new calf narrowly avoided multiple disasters today in San Diego waters. A US Customs vessel was flying towards the harbor at over 30mph completely unaware of the whales’ presence and narrowly avoided colliding with this vulnerable cow/calf pair thanks to a last second maneuver at the frantic urging, hailing, and shouting from our boat. A private fishing boat made almost the identical mistake a few minutes later. Final
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Pure imagination” Is the only way to describe this very real encounter with a mom and calf pair of Blue Whales on a perfect summer day a couple of years ago. | Domenic Biagini
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Pure imagination” Is the only way to describe this very real encounter with a mom and calf pair of Blue Whales on a perfect summer day a couple of years ago. | Domenic Biagini
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "@erica.sackrison just captured the shot of the year for @gonewhalewatching today! We were cruising along offshore with a competition pod of 6 Humpback Whales, including our old friend “Flicka”, when one of these full-grown behemoths took to the sky with a spectacular breach! This was the only breach we saw all day, and Erica once again proved she’s got some of the best hands in the business by capturing this perfect shot with only a few heartbeats to react and shoo
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "@erica.sackrison just captured the shot of the year for @gonewhalewatching today! We were cruising along offshore with a competition pod of 6 Humpback Whales, including our old friend “Flicka”, when one of these full-grown behemoths took to the sky with a spectacular breach! This was the only breach we saw all day, and Erica once again proved she’s got some of the best hands in the business by capturing this perfect shot with only a few heartbeats to react and shoo
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Whales have hair…and lice! The Humpback Whale season has been very consistent this fall, and we generally see sightings peak around the end of November and early December, so we hope you’ll come spend some time with us soon aboard @gonewhalewatching…once this rain clears!"
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Whales have hair…and lice! The Humpback Whale season has been very consistent this fall, and we generally see sightings peak around the end of November and early December, so we hope you’ll come spend some time with us soon aboard @gonewhalewatching…once this rain clears!"
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From first-timers to lifelong dreamers— whale watching is for everyone 🐋💫🌈 | Domenic Biagini
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From first-timers to lifelong dreamers— whale watching is for everyone 🐋💫🌈 | Domenic Biagini
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The amount of energy a Humpback Whale uses to jump out of the water is equivalent to how much energy a human uses to run a full marathon! | Domenic Biagini
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The amount of energy a Humpback Whale uses to jump out of the water is equivalent to how much energy a human uses to run a full marathon! | Domenic Biagini
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Happy birthday to the greatest partner I could have ever dreamed of! I’m not kidding when I say she was literally created in a lab: this girl is incredible with a camera, throws mean batting practice, drills 3 pointers, takes boats 100 miles offshore in the gnarliest seas, tolerates my nerdy obsessions, loves animals, and it also doesn’t hurt that she’s smoking hot too! Thanks for making every day one to look forward to @erica.sackrison!"
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Nonstop lunge feeding Humpback Whales in San Diego this week! The fun thing about this time of year is that our afternoon 2pm tours with @gonewhalewatching are now de-facto sunset whale watches! On Wednesday the action seemed to get better and better as the sky began to glow, so don’t miss this Saturday’s 2pm tour aboard Hana Hou to see if the golden hour magic continues! Tickets are way below face-value, no discount codes needed! And speaking of discount codes, we
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Domenic Biagini | Happy Whalentine’s Day to all who celebrate! It’s been a nice bounce back year for gray whale sightings here in San Diego. While seeing... | Instagram
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "This is the greatest surface lunge feeding humpback spectacle I’ve ever seen in San Diego! You can watch the full sequence in 4k on my YouTube channel with the same username! Filmed aboard @gonewhalewatching with @bluelifewild and @erica.sackrison"
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Domenic Biagini | Our most intense orca sighting of 2025 with @gonewhalewatching! I wonder when we’ll have our first sighting of 2026?! | Instagram
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Bonkers compilation of some of the most spectacular ETP orca predation events we’ve witnessed with @gonewhalewatching in recent years for World Orca Day! For me personally these are some of my favorite ocean memories because these were rare moments I got to witness the action with my naked eyes: not through a camera lens or drone screen! We are very lucky @erica.sackrison is so good with a camera! P.s. Orca and “killer whale” are used interchangeably and fully embr
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "A World of Whales! That’s the title to my latest long-form project: an hour and fifteen cinematic experience of pure ocean ambience featuring blue, fin, humpback, minke, and gray whales alongside orcas and common dolphins. This compilation blends soothing ambient music, natural ocean sounds, and features numerous uninterrupted one-shots that invite you to feel like you’re truly out at sea! Whether you’re meditating, studying, doing laundry, or winding down for the
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Big and Little!"
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "The nutrient rich seas of Monterey Bay are a deep green in coloration. While most people think of the color blue when it comes to the ocean, often times it’s actually the green seas that are the most abundant with life! Viewed from above this dark coloration often leads to a rainbow effect from the burst of white water when a whale surfaces!"
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Excuse me miss, I’m here for my barnacle inspection! With Humpback Whales still in the San Diego area, I’m hopeful for another magical encounter like this one! Out with @gonewhalewatching on my birthday, a pair of extremely friendly barnacle-clad Humpbacks continually spyhopped right next to our boat! In this clip, one came so close to @erica.sackrison that she had to pull back her phone to avoid the whale touching her! While nothing bad would have happened, we bel
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "🚨Discounts to see Blue Whales incoming!🚨 Over the last decade San Diego has become one of the most reliable and accessible places in the world to see Blue Whales, and that’s why here at @gonewhalewatching we build our entire summer schedule around these special extended duration trips to search for BLUES! If you book an Extended Blue Whale Search for next summer before November 30th, you can get $60 off per ticket when you use the code “blue26” at checkout. Disco
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "If there’s one thing in the world that never gets old, it’s a Humpback Whale jumping out of the water! When guests book our @gonewhalewatching 5-day whale watching experience in Maui, it’s always with the hope of experiencing something magical like this. All that extended time on the water greatly increases the odds at seeing those bucket list behaviors, and our second week of guests got extra spoiled yesterday morning! As we were about to head in for the afternoon
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "When I first heard this cover by @stephenstanleymusic, my creative juices immediately started flowing and all I could think about is all of the incredibly beautiful things I’ve been fortunate enough to see out on the ocean. It really is a wonderful world out there 💙"
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Serenely beautiful, it has been a privilege to observe the grace of the Blue Whale this past half decade. It breaks my heart to know there are still those in this world that wish to return to the very practice that nearly brought an end to the great whales: the commercial hunting of whales. I admire people like @captainpaulwatson that are on the front lines of protecting these amazing animals for future generations. I hope by continuing to share these animals with
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Orca Interaction: Dolphin Encounter Highlights
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "The softer side of the ocean’s top predator 🖤🤍 Killer Whales reside at the top of the food chain, but that doesn’t make them evil. In fact, they display some of the strongest social bonds in the entire animal kingdom. They feel love, and empathy, and grief just as we do. The mothers and grandmothers are some of the only females in the animal kingdom that stay alive after menopause, often with a sole purpose to care for younger members of their family. This moment
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "While running tours with @gonewhalewatching is one of the greatest joys of my life, it’s always nice to get out on the water with @erica.sackrison just to have fun without the pressure of finding wildlife! Naturally, whenever you don’t NEED to find whales, the whales tend to find you! 3 different Humpback Whales gave Erica and I an afternoon we’ll never forget! They gently interacted with us like this for hours, and it was really fun to see us tiny humans next to t
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Have you ever noticed how serpentine large whales like Fin Whales can look!? It doesn’t surprise me at all that early human sailors believed in things like sea monsters. It’s hard to fathom venturing out into massive a body of water like the ocean where you know absolutely nothing about the giant creatures living within its depths. Can you imagine the emotions going through those humans the first time they laid eyes on a giant creature like this Fin Whale feeding!?
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Orcas riding the bow like the big dolphins they are! It’s been awhile since I’ve seen the famous pod of ETP Killer Whales that visits San Diego from time to time. Today I woke up to yet another much to early incidence of “May Grey”, and those gloomy skies reminded me of the last time @erica.sackrison and I hung out with this very special pod of killer whales near the end of last year. One thing I really love about being based in San Diego is that it’s possible to e
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "“It’s coming right over to the boat!” There’s no doubt about it, Blue Whales definitely love our new @gonewhalewatching boat the Hana Hou! We saw 20+ individual Blue Whales across all of our 2.5 hour trips yesterday, and at one point during our sunset tour we could see as many as 20-30+ Blue Whale spouts all at once across the horizon! Just an astonishing number of whales for the month of May! Drones don’t record sound of course, so I added in the sound from the ca
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "Watch as a giant blue whale locks in on TWO big swarms of krill in one surface interval! You can watch this full sequence in 4k in my newest YouTube video."
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2020 Whale Watching Documentary: A Year In My Life
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Domenic Biagini on Instagram: "The largest chomp in the world, slowed down for dramatic effect! It’s still hard for me to believe how fortunate I’ve been to spend so many days in the presence of the largest animal in the world. When I first began using drones to film cetaceans on whale watching tours, I let my imagination run wild with the type of imagery that would be possible to witness. Southern California is home to some of the most diverse cetacean populations of anywhere on earth, making t
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