Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson, from a screenplay by Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Donati, and starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn and Robert Carradine.
The film also promotes conservation of the reefs. Its "making-of" documentary, Diving with Dolphins, revealed that in the three years of production of the film, one-third of the reef used on location died. [8] Despite this, Scholey said: "If the young people can fall in love with the ocean and its creatures, the oceans have a hope.
Namu, the Killer Whale; O. Orca (1977 film) S. Shores of Silence; ... The Whale (2011 film) Whale (film) A Whale for the Killing; Whale Rider This page was ...
'In the Whale,' the story of Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard's life and his 30 seconds in a humpback's mouth, continues to sell out shows.
Hank Donner is a marine biologist camping and studying the underwater fauna near a Northwest Pacific fishing town. One day, while Hank and his local assistant Deke study a pod of grey whales swimming past the cove where they have set up camp, they witness a pair of fishermen, Joe Clausen and Burt, shooting at a passing group of killer whales.
The white whale returns, and Chase takes position to attack. When the whale breaches, Chase sees his previously thrown harpoon still embedded above the whale's eye. Chase stares into the whale's eye as the whale stares back. Chase lowers his harpoon and the whale swims away, never to be seen again. The two boats become separated.
In 2018, filmmaker Megumi Sasaki released a follow-up film examining the legacy of The Cove, titled A Whale of a Tale. The film examines the cultural divide between Western activists, who have continued to travel to Japan to protest the Taiji dolphin drive hunt for many years after the film's release, and the local population.
Killer whales, found in all oceans, are currently considered one global species. The new proposed species would mark the first split of the ferocious apex predators, which, if approved, could have ...