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Herman Melville titles Chapter 53 of Moby-Dick, "The Gam."After explaining that the word does not appear in dictionaries, he gives his own definition: GAM. Noun - A social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships, generally on a cruising- ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats' crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief ...
The whale crushed the bow, driving the vessel backwards, and then finally disengaged its head from the shattered timbers and swam off, leaving Essex quickly going down by the bow. Chase and the remaining sailors retrieved the spare whaleboat while the steward, William Bond, ran below to gather the captain's sea chest and whatever navigational ...
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (officially the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary) is an 842-square-mile (636 sq nmi; 2,181 km 2) United States Government-protected national marine sanctuary located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay between Cape Cod and Cape Ann.
Games. Health. Home & Garden. Lighter Side. Medicare. News. Science & Tech. ... to allow crews of smaller boats to quickly locate and kill whales. But some activists say the ship’s high-powered ...
In recent years, scientists have said climate change is a threat to the whales because the shifting locations of the food they eat causes them to stray from protected areas of ocean.
Ship collisions are among the most dire threats to the survival of the whale, according to NOAA. Environmental groups demand emergency rules to protect rare whales from ship collisions Skip to ...
The ship sailed for the Pacific grounds in mid July 1828, returning early July 1830. [ 3 ] Relatively wealthy from his successful whaling voyages, Chase now stayed in Nantucket for two years to supervise the construction at the Brant Point shipyards of his own whaler, the Charles Carrol , which sailed on October 10, 1832, for a three-and-a-half ...
The ship was based in Japan in Shimonoseki harbor [8] and was owned by Tokyo-based Kyodo Senpaku, which is a subsidiary of the Institute of Cetacean Research. [9] Minke whales, including a 1-year-old juvenile, being loaded aboard Nisshin Maru.