It has been designed to switch off as soon as a broadcasting ship comes within 1km of a whale.
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The glossy black fin and back of a minke whale rose a hundred yards astern, two yellow-striped dolphins broke water and plunged down again, and then the flow of the turned tide could be seen as a chop on the water, small standing waves that indicated the Minch was reversing its direction.
In a matter of a week and a half, it goes from milligrams in weight up to the weight of a blue whale.
In Twitter's early days, the "fail whale" an image of a whale lifted by birds would pop up on the Twitter website to indicate outages.
But after looking it up on the internet with his father, Alex, they discovered that it was likely to be a rare form of vomit from a sperm whale.
Depending on the circumstances a number of licences need to be granted before a whale can be moved and disposed of, including from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
Along the way, it garnered a few citations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and some negative publicity in 2010 when an orca whale killed a trainer in front of a live audience in Orlando.
But he is taken for a ride by the unscrupulous Cat and Fox, almost eaten up by an evil giant, swallowed up in the belly of a whale, before eventually escaping from his wooden shell to become a real person.
One panel features a whale in stripes of yellow, green, lilac and blue, its mouth wide open like a cavern of infinity.
There's barely time to understand what's happening before a flash of silver whale's skin breaks the surface, dips beneath a wave and plunges down to the dark fathoms of the North Atlantic.
The other side of the Atlantic experienced a shortage of whale oil used for illumination.
Helen Michie's Whale Skull Bone, artwork in the shape of the bones of a minke whale, is planned for a site above the beach at Dunnet Bay.
Dr. Kenney also orchestrated the live capture of a baby gray whale, which he lassoed using a "hoop net" at a lagoon in Baja California in 1971.
There is film footage from 1970 of a whale in Florence, Oregon, in the United States, being disposed of by explosion.
The Wall Street Journal has dubbed the former "Senator Ahab" for his "obsessive" pursuit of this white whale of a story about "politicized" intelligence.
As with many buildings in Europe, the Petschek villa is scored and crossed, like the hide of a whale, with the history of its accidents.
The turtle is the latest in a large number of sea creatures, including a 40 tonne fin whale, to be found on beaches around Wales.
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In April 2002 a dead minke whale was washed up on the coast of Normandy, France, with nearly a kilogram of plastic bags in her stomach that she had mistaken for food.
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By the time our own pot of harihari-nabe finally arrived, all we could do was play with the needle-thin (hari means "needle") stalks of mizuna greens and take a bite or two of whale leftovers.
Welles' classic novel and directed by the master of macabre, James Whale, The Invisible Man fueled a host of sequels and features revolutionary special effects that are still imitated today.
The expansive play area, built by RipBang Studios, features a whale made of steel, wood decking and rope netting.
And, on the beach itself, Gotfod points out canine footprints circling the putrefying carcass of a humpback whale, covered in ghost crabs.
The navy has also noted the location of a sperm whale off Mull which was seen in Oban bay earlier this month.
Dr Frantzis, who has just published his data in Nature, studies Cuvier's beaked whale a denizen of the Ionian sea off Greece's west coast, among other places.
It was the first time researchers had successfully sedated a large whale of any type, according to NOAA. To do so, they had to use two cups worth of tranquilizer and a foot-long needle.
Above a speed of about 10 knots, a right whale's encounter with a large ship would probably be fatal.
Meanwhile, a representative of Mr McCaw a Seattle-based cellular-telephone millionaire who helped to finance September's transfer of Keiko, a killer whale, to Iceland flew into Makah territory last week to see if a way could be found to halt the hunt in exchange for certain unspecified economic incentives.
Researchers in Hawaii measured the hearing of a female killer whale and found she could fine-tune her most crucial sense.
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