What it was
The captain explained that the animal in the water was a small Sperm Whale. Mateo looked at the captain with a confused look on his face. He knew what whales looked like, and that wasn’t it. “Whales don’t have spikes and usually aren’t that color.” But the captain assured Mateo that he was right. He stated that the whale was, unfortunately, dead. The reason it moved was because air was trapped underneath its blubber.
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