Summary: Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is a member of a rarely seen group of whales – the beaked whales – that are completely remarkable. Cuvier’s beaked whale holds the record for the deepest dive by an air-breathing animal (without the aid of a submarine!). So we’re heading out, into the open ocean, to visit with one of the most rarely seen large animals on Earth, and to follow it away from the air and the light into the midnight zone …
