The whale overwhelming 170 tons of the largest planet

(citizens of Vietnam) pictures of whale swimming water 32m length will make a lot of people before the heart attack spectacular animal.

Swiss photographer Franco Banfi was lucky in close to the largest mammal on earth exploration in the south of Sri Lanka.

Franco, a 57-year-old share: "I swim in the sea, off the coast of 20km sank. I heard people say you can find enough fish here the elephant, but I love the blue whale. So I decided to go downstairs to the car, diving I met a blue whale me or not."

Franco know swimming to the blue whale is a wonderful experience of earth's largest. Franco believes this is we meet, you will remember all my life.

The blue whale is a kind of life in the deep sea diving layer, usually 500m for food. Although the body of "huge monster", but these whales eat plankton and small crustaceans.

The blue whale is a baleen whale, the length ratio of 30 meters, weighing 170 tons. This is the biggest creature in the world one day.

In the Twentieth Century, the number of blue whales is very individual more than 300000 in most of the oceans of the world. However, in more than 100 years, they have hunted almost to extinction, until the protection of B In 1966, the international law. According to reports, in 2002, there is about 5000-12000 personal life.