'The moment I made eye contact with a whale' 16.9%
BBC Future - By Isabelle Gerretsen - 6/14/2026, 9:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 21.6% - Halo Effect 14.3% - Anecdotal 14.3%
A whale the size of a large van stared directly at Marcia Riederer as it circled the rope she was holding onto in the water. "It felt like time slowed down… like it was looking into my soul," recalls Riederer. "Its eyeball was the size of my head and it was really looking at me." Riederer, a Brazilian photographer, had a life-changing... more