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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 ...
SS Clifton, originally SS Samuel Mather, was a whaleback lake freighter built in 1892 for service on the Great Lakes.She was 308 foot (94 m) long, 30 foot (9.1 m) beam, and 24 foot (7.3 m) depth, and had a 3,500 ton capacity.
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.
A coalition of environmental groups has sued the federal government to try to force the finalization of ship speed rules that the groups say are critically important to save a vanishing species of ...
It could take weeks to unblock a massive container ship wedged in the Suez Canal like a "beached whale," officials said Thursday as the standstill in the critical waterway continued. An estimated ...
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships. The groups filed ...
However, based on data from other whale species, only 5-17% of strikes are detected, so the total number may be higher. [7] North Atlantic right whales are more vulnerable to ship strikes than other whales because right whales spend more time in coastal areas at the surface of the ocean and do not exhibit vessel-avoidance behavior. [8]
Watch as a humpback whale tangled in fishing line was freed. Staff from the NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary found the whale swimming off the Maui coast before ...