
He received a text on Sunday from a fisherman telling him that there was a dead adult sperm whale floating in the water about 12 miles off shore on the eastern side of Challenger Banks. Within an hour Mr Aming, along with photographer Chris Burville and a small group of friends, were able to watch the drama unfold as about a dozen tiger, blue and dusky sharks made a meal of the 30-35 feet leviathan.
Mr Aming told The Royal Gazette: "I had two sharks within two feet of my face while I was sitting on the back of a dead whale just ripping flesh out of it. I have never been able to get that close. It's not the largest number of sharks I have seen at once but it was just pretty intense over all because the feeding was quite ravenous.
"We were on Chris's boat but once I saw the sharks sticking their heads out of the water I thought, 'I've got to climb on the whale'. I was probably sitting there for 45 minutes with my GoPro camera but it was very shaky and unstable — when the swells came the whale would roll.













Comment: There's been no let up in the number of dead whales washing up on the west coast of North America this year: Dead Gray whale buried in Tijuana, Mexico
Second dead whale found at Pacifica, California within 3 weeks
Authorities investigate two dead gray whales off Santa Cruz County coast
Dead sperm whale found on beach in Pacifica, California
Dead killer whale found near Fort Bragg, California
Fin whale found dead in San Pedro harbor, California
Dead grey whale washes up near Ucluelet, Canada
Humpback whale found dead near Westport, Washington
Dead Humpback whale washes ashore in Monterey, California
Dead gray whale found off Torrey Pines State Beach, California
Beached pygmy sperm whale dies at Point Reyes, California
Dead gray whale discovered at Seattle ferry terminal
14 whales and 16 turtles wash up dead on Baja California Sur coast