Mason Weinrich, director of the Cetacean Research Unit located there, and author of Observations: The Humpback Whales of Stellwagen Bank, had made some general comments about the humpbacks.
The burden of getting the whales to the ridge falls to a cock-eyed coalition of whale hunters and whale lovers who must carve a path in record-time and pray the whales follow their lead.
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If it avoids predators, such as cormorants, seals, dolphins, and even killer whales, it will arrive there and feed on certain large zooplankton and sand eels, as well as herring, capelin, and other fish.
As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along'into the midst of the seas,'where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and'the weeds were wrapped about his head,'and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
Some 10 or 20 seconds after the bubble cloud appears on the surface, the whale comes up in the center of the slick with mouth agape, as you’ve just seen.”
" And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster's ( whale's ) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea- gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps. "
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" Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed....
For several months residents and tourists at the beaches or on the cliffs are thrilled to watch the whales —mothers and calves resting or frolicking in the water!
" The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they failed of their main object, laid- open the haunts of the whale. "