Sentences with phrase «as whalers»

It appears that the 2011 hunt is simply being delayed, as the whalers have stated that their plan is to resume it later this summer.

This popular dive site which was once the third largest whaling port in Hawaii, is also known as Whalers Cove.

Located by Koloa Landing, also known as Whalers Cove, this villa is just steps away from Kauai's famous Green Sea Turtle gathering spot.

NORWAY faces strong condemnation from the International Whaling Commission again this year, as its whalers continue their commercial hunt in the face of a world moratorium and in the absence of any reliable way of determining «safe» catch quotas.

Allowing the Arctic to be used as a whaler highway to Japanese markets makes everyone complicit in the slaughter,» said Taryn Kiekow Heimer, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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He has also served as general manager of the Vancouver Canucks and Hartford Whalers.

But when the only work Fly could find was as a Wall Street scrivener, scratching out copies of endless legal documents, Melville fled, joining a whaler sailing for the Pacific on January 3, 1841.

It begins with an epigraph from Genesis 1:28: «Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea...» But men have no such dominion; the sea has dominion, as the Quaker fishermen and Ahab's whalers knew.

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For a franchise that was launched 34 years ago as theNew England Whalers, has been a member of two leagues (the WHA and NHL) and hasplayed its home games in five cities (Boston; Springfield, Mass.; Hartford; Greensboro, N.C.; and Raleigh), maybe the coolest trophy in the world can serveas an anchor for the team and for big league hockey in the South.

Before and since the whalers it has been the landfall for westbound Atlantic shipping, and today its name is bandied about the skies as a key point in the regulation of transoceanic aerial traffic.

Known as the «right» kind of whales for hunting, the last North Pacific right whale in Canadian waters was seen (and killed) by whalers in 1951.

Much of a sperm whale's head is occupied by the spermaceti organ, a huge fibrous cask containing a milky, waxy material that was highly prized as a lubricant and lamp oil, and which to Nantucket whalers looked like nothing more than gallons and gallons of semen — hence the name.

It began in the US as a bunch of west - coast hippies who, copies of the I Ching in hand, sailed into nuclear test zones in the Pacific to disrupt whalers.

They are called «right whales» because whalers thought the whales were the «right» ones to hunt, as they float when killed and often swim within sight of the shore.

Staying alive as this once - frozen world turns to slush means keeping your wits about you and gleaning information about the environment from every available source, including the radio, the retreating ice, or your whaler uncle, Joe.

Humans, primarily buccaneers and whalers, exploited them as a food source during the 18th and 19th centuries.

As throughout the rest of the islands, Pinta tortoises were over-exploited by whalers, fur sealers, and others in the 1800s.

«Call me Ishmael» declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade.

The latest from the New York Herald Tribune states that the polar exploration ship Hansa is reported by a whaler as being crushed in sunk in the pack ice in its attempt to reach the North Pole; sunk at seventy degrees north latitude off Greenland.

Pizza Paradiso started out almost 20 years ago as a little seaside pizza joint serving pie by the slice at Whalers Village in Ka`anapali.

As far as condominiums there are a few oceanfront options that are again, on a rocky coastline but within a short distance from the beach: Poipu Palms, Poipu Makai and Whalers CoAs far as condominiums there are a few oceanfront options that are again, on a rocky coastline but within a short distance from the beach: Poipu Palms, Poipu Makai and Whalers Coas condominiums there are a few oceanfront options that are again, on a rocky coastline but within a short distance from the beach: Poipu Palms, Poipu Makai and Whalers Cove

Each year Whalers Village hosts the annual Maui Onion Festival and also serves as the... MORE finish line for the Maui Marathon.

Lahaina might look like a tourist town today, but every chapter of Maui's history — from it's status as the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom to whalers,... Read More

Divers can discover anything from small finds such as anemonefish, pipefish and shrimp / goby pairs to turtles, rays, groupers, Maori wrasse and several species of shark, including reefs, white tips and bronze whalers.

Lahaina is known as the old whaler's town and boasts street after street of storefront shopping from T - shirts to paintings to jewelry to scrimshaw.

Previously they were thought to be too small to be a worthwhile catch, however, as the larger whale species became depleted, the whalers began to hunt the minke as a replacement.

[40] A. B. Van Deinse points out that the «scrag whale», described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.

KAANAPALI, Maui — On the world - famous three - mile stretch of white sand beach known as Kaanapali Beach in West Maui, the sun sets in glorious colors throughout the year, humpback whales frolic off shore in winter months, the weather averages a balmy 75 - 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and, at the center of it all, Whalers Village Fine Shops -LSB-...]

About Whalers Village Fine Shops & Restaurants: Recognized as Maui's premier oceanfront shopping destination, Whalers Village Fine Shops & Restaurants is part of the master - planned, award - winning Kaanapali Beach Resort and hugs the famed three - mile long strip of Kaanapali Beach.

Larger species enjoying the current and the nutrient - rich water are grey reef sharks (or grey whalers as they are often called by Aussies), white tip reef sharks, mackerel and sweetlips.

The Protea Banks is rated as one of the best shark diving sites in the world, and it is often possible to see up to 5 species of sharks on a single dive including Zambezi [Bull] Sharks, Tiger Sharks, Hammerheads, Blacktip Sharks, Ragged - Tooth Sharks, Bronze Whalers, Giant Guitar Sharks and if you are lucky a passing Great White.

The thirty - minute dive gives the diver the chance to get up close and personal with large but docile grey nurse sharks, as well as sandbar whalers, wobbygong sharks, and bamboo sharks.

OPTION 2 SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium See the amazing world of aquatic animals such as sandbar whaler sharks, gray nurse sharks, Port Jackson sharks, king penguins, gentoo penguins, freshwater sawfish, smooth stingrays, green sea turtles and big - bellied seahorses at Australia's largest aquarium.

it is walking distance to Whalers Village, shops and many restaurants and resorts, as well as two neighboring championship golf courses.

The Vintage is only a five - minute walk to the world famous Kaanapali Beach, Whalers Village Shopping Center, golf courses and fine dining such as Leilani's on the Beach and Roy's.

The upscale outdoor shopping center of Whalers Village is right next door, as are favorite oceanside dining and bar options.

If Mr. KIA were writing back in the early 1900s, he'd be decrying those same fossil fuel companies as having put all the whalers and blacksmiths out of business.

The whalers shifted from Cape Cod to the Arctic because «just as in 2010 the oil - well drillers were in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico rather than up on shore, the easy - to - get resource had been exhausted.»

How about — We must do something urgent about AGW because...... otherwise future generations will regard us as even more stupid than the people who felled the last tree on Easter Island, or the Dodo hunters, or the 19thC whalers or the Grand banks cod fishermen, or CFC manufacturers... Or any of the other examples from history of human activities damaging a common resource by overuse.

At this point in the whaling season, the Sea Shepherd believes they have managed to prevent the whalers from actually finding and killing any whales as they have been too busy trying to out manoeuvre the anti-whaling boats.

A fin whale hunt was scheduled to begin at the end of June, but on May 10, 2011, Iceland announced that its whalers would not begin killing those whales as scheduled.

Whalers» logbooks dating from as early as the early 20th century provide anecdotal evidence.

And WDC Chief Executive Officer Chris Butler - Stroud said: «Efforts by HB Grandi to distance itself from fin whaling activities are revealed as mere smoke and mirrors — our report demonstrates that the company remains hand - in - glove with the fin whalers.

Whalers cited «violent interference» and other clashes lasting 31 days with Sea Shepherd as «paralyzing» the hunt.

Geoffrey Lean, who writes for the Telegraph, speculates that the inexplicably raised quota may be a political gesture on the part of Norwegians, aimed simply at ousting Japan as the top whaler.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been battling hard against this barbarism by the Japanese whalers and sees this as simply one more battle to be fought.

Consider a case study of substitution offered by some of the Breakthrough Institute scholars who signed the Ecomodernist Manifesto: the replacement of whale oil by fuels such as kerosene, which, they argue, helped spare many species of whales from extinction at the harpoons of the whalers in the nineteenth century.

Sea Shepherd shot to prominence as the futuristic trimaran Ady Gil pursued the Japanese whaler Shonan Maru 2 through Antarctic waters in January - spawning coverage such as the TV show Whale Wars.

You may know Hartford as the home of the now defunct hockey team, the Hartford Whalers.