If you have browsed the pages of this website you have certainly read the following sentence: "Swimming with whales is a chance, let's act respectfully so that it lasts a long time".

For us these words have a real importance, a deep meaning. This means that man in the ocean is a stranger, to immerse yourself in it is to enter a world inhabited by other species who have their habits, their landmarks and find their tranquility there. It should be the same on dry land you say! Yes, the continents do not belong to man any more than the ocean. Homo sapiens gradually learns that the non-human species that populate this planet have the same legitimacy as him to live there. We begin to understand that we are part of a subtly balanced whole that our often irresponsible behavior has undermined.

When we observe nature and wild animals, we reconnect with this unbreakable but often forgotten bond that unites us to other species. Wild simply means "living in freedom" and catching the gaze of a whale, dolphin or shark brings back that feeling so dear to us; freedom. Wild comes from the Latin silvaticus which means "forest". Man, throughout his history, has exerted so much effort and ingenuity to "detach" himself from nature that even words have lost their Latin. Today the synonyms for savage all have a primitive, ferocious, or at least negative connotation. Yet cruelty is very rare in the wild world in view of what it can be in the lives of men.

Swim alongside a whale and you'll find that it bears no resentment towards our species, while we were a hair's breadth away from exterminating its own. As if it had forgiven us, inviting us to make a clean sweep of the past by focusing on the present; you and her, face to face. A giant of 15m and 30 tons, yet not the slightest sense of dominance in his behavior, at best curiosity and a mad desire to play, at worst indifference.

Avoid behavior does not imply a lack of curiosity on the part of an animal, rather it indicates being approached too hastily. With a little patience the outcome of the meeting could have been very different.

The first thing after spotting an animal is to identify it. What species is it, what type of individual, male, female, adult, juvenile? It is then necessary to determine its activity, play, movement, rest, parade, predation, flight. After that only can the approach work begin, slowly of course, with caution. The goal is not to appear aggressive, not to be identified as a danger. At the same time, we can get an idea of ​​the character of the individual(s) we observe, shy, curious, indifferent; the approach of course will adapt to it.

This is what we want to offer you with Mokarran Diving, animal-friendly approaches to observe them live in a non-intrusive way and allow themselves to interact only when the animal allows us to. Know how to observe, wait, stay behind to better approach. Our experience in the wild has always shown us that patience is a virtue often rewarded.

All the work of the Whale Watching Tahiti team for more than 10 years goes in this direction A better understanding of animals and their environment for better approaches. You will find more details about our professional and personal experiences on the page "the team".