Sentences with phrase «about a whaling ship»

John Huston's Moby Dick starts out introducing a main character, as the novel does, with the famous line «Call me Ishmael», and then doesn't touch on him any further and begins a tale about a whaling ship.

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It was collected in the deep sea about 190 miles offshore Louisiana during a 2010 mission by the NOAA Ship Pisces to study sperm whale feeding.

But they know far less about blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean, where ships strike and kill some of the largest animals on Earth.

Killer whales, for instance, are known to swim away from areas where they have encountered sonar signals of about 142 decibels, a sound level lower than currently allowed by the U.S. Navy for its ships, Tyack said, referring to a 2014 study in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that determined the mammals» likely response.

Learn more about the real Nantucket whaling ship: The Essex.

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, directed by Ron Howard, is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's best - selling novel about the dramatic true journey of the whaling ship Essex.

In the film, actor Brendan Gleeson portrays cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (played at a younger age by Tom Holland), who when he is older tells the story of the ship to Herman Melville («Skyfall» actor Ben Whishaw), who wrote a book about a whale you might have heard of.

Over the last decade, dozens of collisions have seriously injured or killed whales off the California coast, and scientists think the population of about 2,500 blue whales that migrates along the West Coast each year may be especially at risk from ship strikes.

Authorities often don't find out about an accident until a carcass washes ashore with propeller injuries or a ship comes to port with a dead whale pinned to its bow.

The aerial survey is part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration mission to learn more about the movement of whales and to devise ways to keep them away from the container ships, fishing vessels, barges and sailboats that have been colliding with them at a rate of six a year in California.

And that doesn't even go into the questionable areas of reality television inasmuch as did having a television production crew aboard ship — a far, far different thing than having actual journalists or documentarians aboard, make no mistake about; Whale Wars is positioned as entertainment — influence actions towards the more dramatic and more risky.

Newly available shipping lanes through the Northwest Passage would greatly shorten the trip between Europe and East Asia, but would likely cross the migratory route of any right whales that occupy the region.It's vital that we know about right whales in this area in order to effectively avoid ship strikes on what could be a quite fragile population.

Japanese fishery officials say activists hindered the whaling ship Kaiko Maru by throwing bottles of strong - smelling liquid into it and banging a boat into it over about 3 hours on Friday.

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