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Ocean Odyssey (working title Oceans) is a two-part, two-hour (the two parts last an hour long) television programme produced for the BBC by the production company Impossible Pictures. It follows the life of a bull sperm whale from his birth until his death, stranded on a beach (originally it was to be a voyage in a submarine).
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was first mate of the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific Ocean on November 20, 1820, after being rammed by a sperm whale. Soon after his return to Nantucket, Chase wrote an account of the shipwreck and the attempts of the crew to reach land in small boats.
A massive whale circled a boat near Sydney for nearly an hour Aug. 16, leaving the 21 passengers stuck in place until it left, according to Blake Horton, who owns tour boat agency Ocean Extreme.
The sperm whale or cachalot [a] (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.
Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...
A sperm whale beached off the coast of Venice, Florida, has died following attempts to save it, officials said Monday. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are planning to ...
The focus of the program was on sperm whales, a cosmopolitan species found in every major ocean. [6] As long-lived apex predators, sperm whales represent a useful bioindicator of health in the marine ecosystem in a toxicological context, owing to the effects of three key processes: bioaccumulation, biomagnification and the generation effect. [4]
Sperm whales are listed as an endangered species in the U.S. Eventually, the whale's carcass is likely to be either towed out to sea, taken to a landfill or buried, officials said. It was ...