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James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
Tico and Friends (Japanese: 七つの海のティコ, Hepburn: Nanatsu no Umi no Tiko) is a Japanese anime television series by Nippon Animation.It is about an 11-year-old girl named Nanami Simpson and her best friend Tico, a female orca.
George Pollard Jr. was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son of Tamar Pollard (née Bunker) and George Pollard, a ship's captain, [2] at a time when the principal industry there was hunting sperm whales to harvest the oil contained in their blubber and spermaceti. [3]
A toddler in China had a great time making friends with a playful beluga whale - until the whale made a “friendly” face. The wide open mouth scared the little girl, who turned around to her ...
The Ann Alexander depicted coming into Leghorn April 1807. [1]The Ann Alexander was a three-masted ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts.She is notable for having been rammed and sunk by a wounded sperm whale in the South Pacific on August 20, 1851, some 30 years after the famous incident in which the Essex was stove in and sunk by a whale in the same area.
A pair of Humpback whales were photographed mating for the first time ever recently. Both were males. The finding has shocked the scientific community, who never have been able to document whales ...
Owen Coffin (August 24, 1802 – February 6, 1821) was a sailor aboard the Nantucket whaler Essex when it set sail for the Pacific Ocean on a sperm whale-hunting expedition in August 1819, under the command of his cousin, George Pollard, Jr. In November 1820, a whale rammed and breached the hull of Essex in mid-Pacific, causing Essex to sink. [1]
The whale numbers less than 360 and has been in decline in recent years in large part because of collisions with ships and entanglement in commercial fishing gear.