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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.
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]
The discovery of the whale – which was later filmed returning lost iPhones and “playing catch” with a group of South African rugby fans – set off a wave of speculation that the marine ...
The mystery as to why a beluga whale appeared off the coast of Norway wearing a harness may finally have been solved. The tame white whale, which locals named Hvaldimir, made headlines five years ...
Examples include bottlenose dolphins, seals, sea lions, and beluga whales. The United States and Soviet militaries have trained and employed oceanic dolphins for various uses. Military marine mammals have been trained to rescue lost naval swimmers, guard navy ships against enemy divers, locate mines for later clearance by divers, and aid in ...
The sudden death of the beloved whale and alleged Russian spy took an unexpected turn toward a possible murder mystery Wednesday as two conservation groups filed a police report and alleged that ...
Frames shot on the shore are followed by footage from the side of a ship that has set off into the open ocean, after which the camera looks at the world from under water, watching how, from afar, come dolphins, appearing as if out of nowhere. Then we see a person in the water, who swims calmly and gracefully towards the dolphins. Contact takes ...
The researchers’ analysis revealed exactly how the killer whales, often hunting as a group, subdue the whale shark. First, the orcas use their bodies to hit a whale shark at high speed.