Through the course of a millennium, mankind has made an effort to explore every frontier this world has to offer.

Every undiscovered region has been prioritized by humans to conquer, no leaf ignored, no stone and turned.

The predetermined notion is that mankind is at the top of the food chain.

Apex predators with no natural superior, nothing to stop us, although in our own willpower.

I mean, we'd made it this far, right?

Wrong.

A few years back, I embarked on a research expedition studying the migration habits of blue

whales in the Pacific Ocean, and while on that trip I realized that we are in fact not the

Earth's Apex Predators. In fact we are most likely relatively

low on the food chain. Please forgive me, I'm rambling. Let me introduce myself. My name is Zach Kiego. I'm a marine biologist that

specializes in the feeding, migration, and mating habits of whales, particularly the blue whale.

The largest animal on earth, or so I thought. Through all of my years and practice, there was nothing more exhilarating than putting on a diving suit and swimming within an arm's reach of a creature

So astronomically massive just to be able to poke a tracker in it

It was almost humbling looking into an eye the size of your head and gazing into its soul as it swims past you, leaving awake that propels you backwards.

It gave me an adrenaline rush like never before.

I'd embarked on so many expeditions in the past.

My most recent accomplishment, being able to determine and predict with 90% accuracy

down to the gridpoint, the location of certain pods during certain times of the year

due to the movement and certain swarms of Krill. The expedition that led me to writing this story

was the test drive for this accomplishment.

We were going to see if what I had predicted was actually accurate.

We had a small team of researchers, Dr. Sarah Ringer, a fellow marine biologist, Dr Jacobacabov, a Russian oceanographer,

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