How to pronounce “whalin” in English

whaling station of turn-of-the-century know the Norwegian whalers mentioned to Shackleton that the ice was as thick as

Norwegian whaling vessel to actually go down and save whales. So, but I remember the first day that we were on the ship and there were migrating whales that came alongside the ship.

The International Whaling agreement was from 1965, so these bones are at least-- were at least 50 years old when I was there,

dependent on whaling, you wanted to know where the whales were and how many you'd caught, because it was essentially an auditing exercise.

at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Santiago, Chile.

aiming for whaling decks and when the stink bombs hit the whaling decks, it spoils any meats that you might put on there so they can't process whales on there.

And there were also bones from abandoned whaling stations.

that they could put in whaling stations so they could get whale oil to help their industrial processes.

Andrea: Our methods are stopping whaling, both directly saving lives and economically.

groups who are enforcing the moratorium on whaling.

I should add it was a rediscovery of something that Indigenous whaling cultures had long known.

We can look at what helped drive down the whaling industry.

And it was actually created from 19th century whaling logs.

Maybe he would say that his father had died on a whaling ship and left Drucker and his mother with nothing.

The United States used to be the greatest whaling nation in the world-- greatest not in terms of best, but greatest in terms of largest.

economy. And now the whaling ships are just in museums.

And the goal wasn't necessarily to end whaling.

issues whales face. Whaling makes up less than 1% of what's killing them.

out for the first time that their country is actually whaling. Because a lot of the country had no idea that it was even going on before this happened. And actually, without

Andrea: It's, commercial whaling has been outlawed by the International Whaling Commission.

if they do, to their pre-whaling numbers.

To the left, this is an abandoned whaling station in the Arctic.

But this is moss that's growing in the area that was a whaling station.

happened that this stranding took place during a meeting of the international whaling commission so B basically every big whale biologist on the planet was

Musashi, Sea Shepherdsí 2008 and 2009 anti-whaling campaign in Antarctica, which was featured in season two of the hit TV show Whale Wars. You can find more info about Eric and his

unmapped area of the island was a got back to grid thicken which was the whaling station and the man at the

We think these were most likely blue whale bones because that's the gold standard of whaling because you

The Gold Rush, the Comstock Lode, the whaling years, railroad barons.

If you go to Nantucket, you can go to the Whaling Museum.

He became famous but he lost the readership eventually with this strange, long book about a whaling voyage.

I mean, if you write all these books about whaling and stuff, it's odd that your next choice would be to write about the snug, suffocating world

money economically, it does cut down and it will stop whaling and sink the whaling fleet economically. And same with the fishing fleets. They operate on a very small margin a lot

Lee: Mm-hmm. Tod: We're aiming only for whaling decks that no people are on because the number one rule is that you can't harm any people. And so what the stink bombs do is that we're actually

ship named the Sierra. And the Sierra was a pirate whaling ship and it wasn't registered to anyone and it just went around the world killing whales. So, Sea Shepherd has a strict

nonviolence policy and to take out the Sierra, the pirate whaling ship, Sea Shepherd sunk it while it was in port and nobody was on board. So, Sea Shepherd has a very, very strict

And so they're finally now following through on that and they have sued Japan in International Court over their whaling, so I do commend Australia for taking that action and following

You know, whales have been decimated so that there really are-- there are about 10% to 20% of the whale population that there was before industrial whaling.

And I work for Sea Shepherd, an organization traditionally known for its aggressive, nonviolent, direct action tactics, most well known for like crashing into whaling

And that's because, for the most part, they're still whaling in the Arctic.

Fresh out of medical school, Arthur Conan Doyle served for a time as a ship's doctor on a Greenland whaling voyage.

So we, as a nation, went from this incredible industry where mansions and big buildings were built around the whaling

We now have a multi-billion dollar whale watching industry that, in comparative terms, would have dwarfed what whaling was when it involved killing of whales.

ClickHole had a piece recently that said-- I'm going to maybe mangle the headline a bit, but I went on this whaling trip and it completely

And so having done that and having a fiction writer's brain, literally, this could have been a novel about like an 18th century whaling family.

TV show on Animal Planet. It's a reality show that takes you with us to the front lines of our battle to save whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary from a criminal whaling operation.

Andrea: No, five million. And, and we had just bought the ship and in Ghana and actually, interestingly enough, it was a former Norwegian whaling vessel. But now we're using that same

We have to get the ship ready to be able to save them because we're gonna be their only defense, once they're down in the Southern ocean, from the criminal whaling operation."

those animals in that sanctuary. But, as we were chasing a whaling ship, we happened to

Andrea: Right. Right, well, a lot, a lot of this is driven by economics. And so with the whaling, well--just going back to the whaling operation though--when we save over