'Extremely rare' inshore sperm whale sighting caught on camera off Nanaimo

A rare sperm whale sighting in inshore waters was captured on camera off of Nanaimo, B.C., on Wednesday around noon.

Jessica Torode with the B.C. Cetacean Sightings Network said the sperm whale, nicknamed “Yukusam,” was spotted and photographed by three researchers with the Pacific Biological Station.

Yukusam, a young male, was previously spotted in February in the  Johnstone Strait, along the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.

Sperm whales have a dorsal fin shaped like a rounded bump. (Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Research Program/Facebook)

Prior to that, there had