The skipper opened his laptop to a preloaded page. With one hand on the boat’s shift and throttle, he managed to start some footage while simultaneously adjusting the boat’s position against the wind. It was a subtly impressive display of skill, but it didn’t hold our attention for long as the footage started to play. I don’t really know what I was expecting to see when my colleague first called me into the skipper’s cabin; I think I expected it to be footage of some vague shape in the distance, something ambiguous that could be interpreted as an object in the water but could equally just be a wave. I wasn’t expecting to see the two classic humps undulating at the surface. What were we looking at? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full

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