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"Man of War Cove", Magdalena Bay, March 1908. As early as 1837 American whaleships visited the bay to cooper their oil and hunt sperm whales outside the bay. Between 1845–46 and 1865–66, American, as well as a few French, Dutch, and Russian, whaleships hunted gray whales in the bay during their winter calving season.
In addition, only one tour vessel is allowed to travel to the whale sharks while the rest must stay 250 meters away. Only ten swimmers are allowed in the water at a time, which controls the crowding of the area, and tourists are prohibited from feeding or touching the whale sharks. [21]
Guadalupe Island (Spanish: Isla Guadalupe) is a volcanic island located 241 kilometres (130 nautical miles) off the western coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and about 400 km (200 nmi) southwest of the city of Ensenada in the state of Baja California, in the Pacific Ocean. [1] The various volcanoes are extinct or dormant.
A frenzied group of sharks surrounded a fishing charter off Florida and began taking turns attacking its trolling motor, video shows. It happened Monday, Feb. 26, about 20 miles east of Cape ...
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 other famous centre for whale watching is False Bay. Tours leave Gordon's Bay and follow the coast around the bay. Species include southern right whales, humpback whales and Bryde's whales. Orcas are present during the winter months. Visitors include pilot whales and pygmy sperm whales.
Salmon shark: Lamna ditropis: Lamnidae Least concern [23] Salmon shark: Smalltooth sand tiger: Odontaspis ferox: Odontaspididae: Vulnerable [24] Smalltooth sand tiger at Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park: Whale shark: Rhincodon typus: Rhincodontidae: Endangered [25] Whale shark at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary: Brown catshark ...
The Gulf of California (Spanish: Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.