By Juliet Linderman
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Hopefully, this is not the trailer but the entire film.
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According to this article in the Triplicate, scientists have been attempting to shoo the stubborn whale back into the ocean by employing a series of unorthodox techniques including “banging long metal pipes in the water with hammers, slapping the top of the water with tree branches and spraying water out of a cannon from a Fire Department boat. ‘We really honestly exhausted the techniques that have worked well in the past….We’ll go into a wait-and-see pattern.”Here’s a treat: my personal favorite whale lover and Dick Watcher Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale, writes about how grandmother sperm whales care for young calves relegated to surface waters, unable to dive into deep waters where their mothers hunt for squid. Amazing!Also amazing: British business magnate and aspiring astronaut Richard Branson swam into the mouth of a whale shark. That’s all.Let’s get political for a minute: A couple weeks ago, things started heating up between the United States and Iceland over the nordic country’s unwillingness to adhere to the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on whaling. The US is now in a position to threaten economic sanctions against Iceland, permitted by the Pelly Amendment, a law that subjects countries in violation of global fisheries conservation to economic sanctions.This promises to be a hot topic in the coming weeks, suggested by Japan’s walkout at the International Whaling Commission meeting on July 14, thereby killing a proposal to protect whales in the southern Atlantic Ocean.In closing, here’s a story about a couple who was boating in Juno, Alaska when a breaching humpback whale fell on their boat and destroyed it. Don’t worry, they survived unscathed. The name of the boat? Ishmael, of course.
