For cruisers seeking unforgettable whale encounters on West Coast itineraries, your ship itself offers multiple perfect ...

Protecting whales from ship strikes 07:08. In the summer of 2022, I was walking on the beach at Half Moon Bay in California, when I saw the strangest thing approaching on the waves.

Most of the crew of a whaling ship sets out in smaller boats to pursue their prey. Only four crew members are left behind, ...

The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were very rare, overlapping just 0.54% of blue whale hotspots and 0.27% of humpback hotspots, and not overlapping any fin or ...

The research team found that only 7% of areas at highest risk for whale-ship collisions have any measures in place to protect whales from this threat. For the four whale species in this study, these ...

What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back ...

But for the majority of whale ship strike hotspots there aren’t any measures in place at all. New protections will also be needed in areas that aren’t currently collision hotspots. At the moment there ...

It’s well known that cargo vessels and whales don’t mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for the majestic creatures. However, No paywalls. No subscriptions.

"Whale-ship collisions have typically only been studied at a local or regional level -- like off the east and west coasts of the continental U.S., and patterns of risk remain unknown for large ...

A humpback whale in front of cargo ships in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the California coast. (Credit: Adam Ernster) The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were very ...