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Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]
Sign at Hammerfest Harbour in Norwegian and English warning against interfering with Hvaldimir. The whale appeared beginning on 26 April 2019 north of Hammerfest, off the island of Ingøya and near the village of Tufjord on the island of Rolvsøya, wearing a tight-fitting camera harness labelled "Equipment St. Petersburg", and rubbing against boats in apparent attempts to free himself.
The killer whales regularly demonstrate their competence by chasing seals up shelving gravel beaches, up to the edge of the water. The pursuing whales are occasionally partially thrust out of the sea by a combination of their own impetus and retreating water, and have to wait for the next wave to re-float them and carry them back to sea. [12]
Hvaldimir, a white beluga whale that was rumored to be a Russian spy, has been found dead in waters off Norway.
Surfacing in the icy waters of the Arctic circle, a lone beluga whale was found off the coast of Norway in April 2019 with a harness and camera mount attached to his body, featuring a label ...
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A modern system produced by Lockheed Martin since the early 1980s is the AN/SQQ-89. [15] On June 13, 2001, Lockheed Martin announced that it had delivered its 100th AN/SQQ-89 undersea warfare system to the U.S. Navy. There was anecdotal evidence that mid-frequency sonar could have adverse effects on whales dating back to the days of whaling ...
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