"Rendez-vous with Whales. Just a few hundred of these giants survive along the coasts of North America, but their numbers are growing in southern seas. One whale repeatedly swam within inches of photographer Brian Skerry and assistant Mauricio Handler (pictured) as they dived off the Auckland Islands. "It looked at me with great curiosity," Handler says. "No aggression." Source : http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/right-whales/skerry-photography?pid=MT"