September 17 there was a large group of right whales engaged in a Surface Active Group (SAG) or courtship group. These SAGs usually consist of a focal female and a range of number of males from as few as one to as many as 50! This SAG was about 20 whales and we caught the end of it when the female dove and the males started to mill about.
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| Gemini's head as seen from the right |
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| One of the pair of scars on Gemini's back which resulted in his name. |
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| New entanglement scars on Gemini's tail. |
One of the males was Gemini, seen earlier in August in the Bay of Fundy by the New England Aquarium research team. He has relatively recent new entanglement scars on his tail that have healed and turned white. Scarring in right whales is often with white scar tissue which is easy to see against their dark skin.
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