Brian Skerry describes the exhilaration of an up-close encounter with a curious, 45-foot-long right whale. Amazing footage from the National Geographic.
Close Encounters Of The Giant Kind
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Tag Archives: humpback
Frontline’s ‘A Whale Of A Business’ Finally Airs On YouTube
It’s been 15 years since the documentary was first released in November 1997, but it is still considered one of the most telling exposures of the captive marine mammal industry. It is a must-see video for everybody. Captivity is not an option!
Read an article about it with further links.
Flying Whale
A breaching adult humpback whale was caught mid-leap, stunning the 80 tourists aboard a Sea World Whale Watch tour just a short distance off the Gold Coast. A breathtaking picture.
A Whale Of A Time
50 Dolphins playing with 4 humpback whales. Whale Watching Sydney captured amazing video of the encounter, just off the world-famous Bondi Beach in Sydney. Read more and watch the video:
Ocean Giants – the movie!
A preview from Ocean Giants – a ground-breaking three part series. A must for all cetaceans friends. Two of the best underwater cameramen Doug Allen (Planet Earth) and Didier Noirot (Jacques Cousteau’s cameraman) captured spellbinding footage of these hunting, mating, moving mammals. More information online.
Watch Ocean Giants “Giant Lives” – Preview on PBS. See more from Nature.
Whale Song Graphlets
The Sience Photo Library is full of real treasures. View this wavelet graphs created by whale songs or the MRI of a dolphin.
They have a good search functions for you to try and do some research – you will be rewarded with stunning imagery.
Black Forest Diary
Hi everybody,
the new season is approaching fast and the first of our team are getting ready to go to Bimini and accompany you on this great journey. Meanwhile I am enjoying spring time in the Black Forest which of course is a very different scene altogether. Continue reading
Whale Rescue
A touching account of trying to free a whale from his life-threatening entanglement of fishing lines from Tom Conlin, founder of Aquatic Adventures. He was the first operator to run a Whales of the Silver Bank expedition.
Tom has 21 years experience over a 216-week time frame working whales on the Silver Bank. WildQuest has been facilitating their yearly Whale Retreat for many years with his company. Download a pdf file.
Whale-sliding!
What a great read, describing the playtime of a group of bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales in the Hawaiian Waters. There is also a video link on the blog. Makes me giggle, just looking at the pics.
Saving Valentina
Great Whale Conservancy aims to protect the world’s great whales and their habitat. A whale-watching trip turns into an incredible rescue effort. Touching – a must see!