For the past nine years Nan Hauser and her seasonal team of whale researchers have been out on the water studying the behaviour and movement of the humpback whales that migrate past the Cook Islands each year.
Every year between July and November brings new whales; Nan Hauser rarely sees the same ones in successive seasons.
Nan and Ygor Geyer, an expert whale tagger who has travelled from Brazil for this project, are both determined to be the first in the South Pacific to successfully satellite tag three of the humpback whales.
For more information see the BBC news article in this link.
