Old footage of beached Whale. They couldn't move the so twenty case of dynomyte later genius!

It must be something to dive with such a massive, gentle creature.

the blue whale is the largest animal ever to have existed. now only 2,000 lefted in the sea's

This is part 2 of the Whale Watching in Juneau video. This time, the whale does something unexpected and pretty amazing.

First Video of Whale Watching in Juneau. This was the first breach of the whale that we got to see. It occurred about 100 yards away from our boat.

A stranded whale attacks a fisherman that's trying to set the whale free.
The fisherman died of this attack.

Firs "Whale In The Night"

a critical look at whaling - not for the squeemish

The grenade harpoons in use today haven't been around for such a long time. In the old days, whalers used harpoons with black-powder grenades, but these   more...unreliable devices weren't well-suited to catching the relatively small minke whale. Starting in the 1920s, Norwegian whalers abandoned the black powder in favor of a harpoon with an empty grenade casing—called a "cold grenade harpoon." Later, they replaced the empty grenade with a simple iron head—the "cold harpoon." The use of non-explosive (cold) weapons tended to prolong the whale's agony, and hunters would have to resort to other, more cumbersome methods to complete the kill.

In the 1980s, the Norwegians developed a new kind of grenade harpoon using a more dependable explosive called penthrite. The cold harpoons were banned, and penthrite grenades became the standard method for killing whales. Minke whalers in Greenland switched over from cold harpoons to penthrite grenades around 1990. The nations that have "scientific whaling" programs—Iceland and Japan—also support the use of explosive grenade harpoons. (Some Japanese whalers still use hand-held harpoons rather than the mounted cannon.)

Whale hunts in other parts of the world make use of more traditional methods. Faroe Islanders continue to hunt pilot whales by surrounding them with boats and driving them toward land. Some of the whales beach themselves, while others get stranded in shallow water. The whalers then use a metal hook to drag the animal onto the shore, where they slice through its spinal cord and main artery, one hand's width behind the blowhole. (In recent years they've switched over from pointed hooks to dull ones, which can be inserted into the vestibular air sacs without causing much tissue damage.) Traditional whalers in the United States use hand-held harpoons to ensnare whales, and then kill them with high-powered rifles. They have also used penthrite bombs and black powder.  less

The footage is from my brothers' friend Steve, diving in Rarotonga.

this employee thought she was going for a fun ride when the whale became violent.

A whale attacks a Japanese fishing boat, knocking two fisherman into the water. One was later pronounced dead after being found by divers.

the ultimate exercise in cynicism

Yar, thar she folds, matey!

The Australian aboriginal Mirning People have held their traditional whale calling ceremony since the Dreamtime ~ this clip is about the migration of the humpback whales 1000's of mile to their birthing   more...grounds all the way from the Antarctic to Queensland. The Whale songman/shaman who conducts the ceremony travels in Spirit on this journey with the whales and back home safely with their newborn ~~  less

Wow he looks like he had a whale of a time.

Seals make for great sport.

This is why you don't try to tie a rope around a sperm whale and tow it with a motorboat.

Elliot singing himself to sleep

A sperm whale swims past an oil rig maintenance vehicle 900 meters under water.

Deep-sea workers are doing maintenance on an oil rig when a sperm whale drops by for a visit.

Screw scalpels, this job calls for excavators and bulldozers.

...the most unusual mammal of the day by far.

Q13 Coverage if the Illegal - Killing of a Gray Whale in Washington State

There's a giant piece of sushi that is normally not on the menu.