Video about whale slaughter

Why do some nations take pride in destroying these magnificent and highly developed friends of people?

Whales - a story: The coast of southern Alaska grows glaciers and brooding rain forests. Hot weather is rare, but since sunup the day had brought nothing else. By afternoon everyone was sweltering. The first person to do more than just talk about leaping off the boat into iceberg-chilled Frederick Sound performed a cannonball. Others jackknifed and belly flopped in. This contest to raise the biggest splash was spirited but short. No sooner had the last person shivered back aboard than three humpback whales surfaced exactly where the jumpers had been landing. The whales lingered a while, misting the crew with spray from their blowholes, then eased down out of sight.

We were still exclaiming about the visit minutes later when the sea to starboard erupted. A 45-foot (14-meter) whale went skyborne up to its tail. Then a pair leaped in near synchrony. Shwa-boom! Ker-bloosh! Others started to breach on all sides. For the next half hour humpbacks were flying and crash landing, sending out minor tsunamis, floating head down to whap the water with their tail flukes, and lying on their sides to slap the surface with long pectoral fins.

It would be the height of arrogance to think we inspired 40-ton (40,000-kilogram) organic submarines to compete with us. But I saw what I saw. Whales have a way of making the incredible real; their very name has become a metaphor for something almost too big to get our minds around. I wondered what the crews on whaling ships thought when they would occasionally haul aboard a fully grown adult with miniature legs sticking out from its flanks. Whether they knew it or not, they were looking at testimony to the origin of these mysterious marine giants.

Source: Never released before
Author: Video

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