Other images include divers getting ready alongside their rafts and their equipment to make repairs, other whalers as well as scenes of the way of life at the Antarctic whaling stations.' ...

Humpback whales are first struck using a cold harpoon (banned by the IWC for commercial whaling in 1980 because of its cruelty), thrown by hand from a sailboat (which may have been towed to the scene ...

So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts, was still the center of the whaling industry in the early 19th century. But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had ...

Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/whaling-interview-dr-tim-d-smith/ As part of the decade long Census of Marine Life project, Dr. Tim D. Smith ...