“Twelve o’clock.” “There it is, twelve o’clock!” Excited passengers moved toward the bow to view a spouting humpback whale. Seeing a whale for the first time can be an awe-inspiring sight. The Monterey Bay Whale Watch Our adventure started at 9 a.m. on the Blackfin, a 65-foot catamaran that is run by the Monterey Bay…

It’s like waking up one day and having a highway next to your house.” This is how Dr. Vincent Raoult describes what is happening to sea life as the intrusion of commercial shipping increasingly worsens already stressful marine conditions. The University of Newcastle professor and colleagues from other research centres have conducted an investigation into…

By John Metcalfe From The Mercury News San Jose–As we speak there’s a spouting, breaching, vocalizing superhighway of whales off the California coast. Epicureans might be disappointed it’s led to a delay in the crab season, as the roving creatures can get tangled up in trap lines. But on the bright side, it’s created fantastic…

HALIFAX—An ambitious plan in Nova Scotia to build North America’s first coastal refuge for captive whales is at least five years behind its original schedule, newly released documents show. The project, announced in February 2020, calls for construction of a 40−hectare underwater enclosure that would provide a natural environment for beluga and orca whales retired…

By TravelPulse staff From TravelPulse To have an unforgettable encounter with majestic gray and blue whales, consider visiting Pueblo Mágico (Magical town) Loreto in Mexico’s Baja California Sur. Loreto is an oasis trapped between the waters of Mar de Cortés and the desert lands of Sierra Giganta. It’s the remote land that the Jesuits used…

A marine photographer has captured the moment a trio of whales came to say hello to humans onboard a boat. Jodi Frediani, 74, from California, caught pictures of the three whales while on a tour with Monterey Bay Whale Watch. The pictures show three humpback whales, each around 40 meters (131 feet) long, coming close to…

A marine mammal research group is reporting that the two minke whales spotted near Montreal last week haven’t been seen for more than 48 hours. Robert Michaud of the group Reseau québecois d’urgences pour les mammifères marins said today one of the whales was last observed on Sunday morning about 25 kilometres downstream from Montreal’s…

DANA POINT, Calif.—Five miles off the coast aboard the Manute’a (pronounced mah-noo-tay-ah), a 50-foot catamaran sailboat with a group of 49 passengers spot two cow-calf gray whales breaching the Pacific Ocean’s surface, flip upside down and swim on their backs. A round of applause erupts from the passengers. “Wow! How cool is that?” says Captain…

These whale watchers were stunned when two giant humpbacks approached their boat and started shooting “rainbows” out of their blowholes. The friendly humpback pair greeted delighted tourists by swimming right up to their boat before spurting water from their blowholes; the droplets caught the sun creating spectacular rainbows. The amazing trick was repeated several times,…

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a lobster fishers groups who wanted the court to block new fishing restrictions in the Gulf of Maine designed to protect endangered whales. Justice Stephen Breyer, who oversees emergency applications over issues before the 1st Circuit, on Dec. 3 rejected the appeal by the Maine Lobstering Union and two lobster…