![Scientists aboard an inflatable use crossbows to study whales](https://earthdive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/whale_150724-210x126.png)
Inside the bodies of humpback whales are clues about how climate change is transforming Antarctica. Our BBC science team crossed the Southern Ocean, with the researchers, on a mission to follow and study the giant whales of this remote, frozen wilderness. At 03:00 in the morning there is an almighty crash. Every drawer in our cabin is flung open and contents hurled against the wall. We hit a 12-metre wave.
I’m not a seafarer; this is alarming, but apparently not unusual on the Drake Passage – the stretch of the notoriously rough Southern Ocean we are on. We’re aboard a 200-passenger tourist ship, with a team of wildlife scientists, on our way to the Antarctic Peninsula.
![Scientists in a small boat approach a humpback whale in Antarctica](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/3278/live/90350370-2713-11ef-a82d-c9f935a67f4f.jpg)
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