After some 13 hours at sea, a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) visited us.
(for monitoring the position, input the following coordinates in Google Earth "Fly to": 66°58'00.00"N 21°26'00.00"W)
Tail's up means it's diving, and will probably not be seen again for at least 15 min.
The shape, spots and patterns on their flukes are like fingerprints, uniquely identifying each individual animal.

EDIT 01.02.2010:
As this animal was previously unrecorded, it has later been registered and printed in the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalogue (NAHWC), as individual #4630.
As of today, the catalogue contains approx. 25 000 photographs of +6100 individual flukes. And guess what - on the 26.01.2010 the whale scientists recognized
this very animal in a picture set taken 07.03.2008, some 6700 km away from here, off the western coast of Guadeloupe, in the lesser Antilles in the Caribbean sea!
Pr. date our re-sighting here, 13 weeks later, is only the 7th re-sighting in Icelandic waters of Humpback whales previously spotted in southern or equatorial seas.
A very rare event indeed, a needle in the ocean, even less of a chance than finding a needle in a haystack, I suppose...
And it actually feels quite cool to be able to contribute to such an exciting result. A 1/8000th of a second in time, well spent for sure! :)