Goliath

CHAPTER 1
 
25 September
Atlantic Ocean
Seine Abyssal Plain
112 miles southwest of
the Strait of Gibraltar
 
With an expulsion of air and water, the majestic behemoth breaks the surface, her sickle-shaped dorsal fin cutting the waves, her great tail slapping the sea in defiance before slipping back into the froth.
At 120 tons, the blue whale is easily the largest living organism ever to have existed on the planet, often reaching lengths of one hundred feet or more. Ten tons of blood surge through its body, driven by a heart the size of a small car. Despite its prodigious girth, the mammal is not a predator but a forager of minifauna, thriving on a diet of krill and crustaceans, which it sieves from the water through its baleen plates.
The adult female rises again, guiding her two-month-old calf to a labored breath above the storm-threatened seas.
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