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Imagine that whale listening from 500 miles.
So here we have the loudness of a call at the whale.
Now in the pre-industrial ocean, as we were mentioning, this whale call could be easily detected.
And this is the kind of call that is used by, say, right whale mothers and calves as they separate to come back again.
This is a whale that just squeaked by a rapidly moving container ship and avoided collision.
The connection between ocean health and human health is actually based upon another couple simple adages, and I want to call that "pinch a minnow, hurt a whale."
In fact, what we did a few years ago was learn how to smuggle a molecular biology lab into Tokyo and use it to genetically test the DNA out of whale meat samples and identify what they really were.
Some of them were illegal whale meat, by the way.
Even though they were labeled whale meat, they were dolphin meat.
It turns out that a lot of dolphins are being sold as meat in the whale meat market around the world.
I remember sitting at my desk being about the only person in the world who knew that whale meat being sold in these markets was really dolphin meat, and it was toxic.
That led to a whole series of other campaigns in Japan, and I'm really proud to say that at this point, it's very difficult to buy anything in Japan that's labeled incorrectly, even though they're still selling whale meat, which I believe they shouldn't.
So what happens is that in a way you have a much bigger lung, but it branches and branches down to distances about the same for a whale, for a man and for a little rodent.
They thought that eventually the killer whale would be at the top of this cascade.
And the differences in scale between this tiny sea dragon and this enormous humpback whale was like something out of a science-fiction movie.
It's not a dinosaur; it's a whale, animals as big as office buildings still swimming around out there in our ocean.
And then imagine being Bruce Mate's team from OSU, getting up close to a blue whale and fixing a tag on the blue whale that stays, an engineering challenge we've yet to really overcome.
You know, coyote in Central Park, a whale in the Gowanus Canal, elk in Westchester County.
There were a couple of moments that provided a chance at some human insight (the scene with the whale was interesting), but these are lost in the general malaise of the film.
Kyle goes to Sea World where a few of the workers play a prank on him, making him think a whale is talking to him.
He BEFRIENDS THE WHALE, actually BEFRIENDS IT.
Before reaching land, they suffer the advances of an over-affectionate octopus and more serious danger from sharks, a swordfish and a whale.
have to really wonder how much work these guys put into making some scenes (whale chases, polar bear hunts, etc). it is a wonderful experience and not to be missed by anyone who dives, surfs, or goes to the beach once in a while.
some of the footage is very cruel and might not be recommended for people with weak stomachs (every killer whale footage is cruel).
It begs the question "who was so stupid to finance such a whale?"
The odds of a killer whale destroying nearly a whole town, singling out a human nemesis, sinking several dozen thick hulled North Atlantic fishing boats and knowing when certain people, all friends of the aforementioned "nemesis", are close enough to the water for it to reach, are so slim as to be laughable.
That doesn't rule it out however; get a group of lads and some Stellas together and have a whale of a time running this one again and again and rolling around on the floor in tears of laughter.
Richard Harris plays Quint.. I'm sorry, that's wrong, he plays Captain Nolan, a fisherman who catches sharks for a living, but is lured by the big catch, and tries to catch a killer whale.
When the capture of a female killer whale goes awry (don't ask) it's mate (don't ask) goes on a rampage (don't ask) and starts STALKING Captain Nolan (Don't ask).
I got to tell you though, the beginning (with the whale noises and nothing much else) is pretty haunting and the end credits (with the most godawful song) is pretty entertaining.
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