When you see them diving and surfacing there is a certain grace, a feeling of triumph. Their slick bodies twist through the funnel of the sea, reach toward the sky; with flippers outstretched, they rise from the pits of the ocean like the second coming of Christ. But the humpbacks sing songs that fill you to the core, that swell inside you. They are the the kind of songs that haunt the sound of your heart beating when you are afraid. I wish I really knew what it was like to be in their presence.