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Photographs of the humpback whale near the Ambrose Channel from the U.S. Coast Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard says that a 500-yard safety zone is being enforced around a humpback whale, which is "entangled in a lobster pot [and netting] and netting eight miles east of Sandy Hook near the approach to Ambrose Channel." The whale, which Newsday says is "a juvenile humpback, about 25 to 30 feet long," was seen on the surface and breathing.
The Coast Guard, which considers the situation possibly life-threatening, said, "We are ensuring the safety of both the animal and boaters," and noted that an "entanglement team from Center Coastal Studies" will cut the whale free today. NOAA's whale disentanglement director Jamison Smith told CityRoom it can take a while before an entanglement is even noticed, "With an entanglement it can go on for months and months. Sometimes it can die and sink because it’s in such bad shape. It has depleted all blubber.”
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dibs on the wishbone.
The Whales Sonata
(Kenneth Frazelle's sonata for cello and piano as performed by YoYo Ma
and Jeffrey Kahane at the Zeiterion Theater, New Bedford Massachusetts, Friday evening, September 15, 1989)
Just as harpooners poised for a stanza
their arms tattooed with multicolored swirls of narrative
listened in secret for runs and cadenzas
that would mark passages from creatures
of the polyphonic sea. We wait
for the striking of the ivory keys
followed by the plucked notes
of the cello master.
Practiced agile hands cause wood and str1ng
to vibrate. Each player linked together
by chords of past and future.
Which wrap us in splendid sound.
We hear phrases that become forged barbs
hurled deep into the mind of public fantasy
which seeps beyond this gathering. Toward
long lyrical lines cast upon the waters that
reverberate beyond the safeharbor of New Bedford
which once spouted wealth.
Far out upon the flood that has never receded
liquid tremulous excite the great giantbacks
who couple and begin to dance.
While we sit straight-backed. Unaware
that the increased tempo causes flukes to crash
like cymbals to the tuning of wind.
Warm-blooded bodies propel themselves
up to an air of ungrounded vision.
Blowholes fill with hot fragrant oils
of passionate release. Pure images created
and scored by time pulse in adagios of primal embrace.
Hundreds of whales soar and breathe. Shameless
exhibitionists who will leap again and again.
In a modern arrangement that will never drown-out
the quavers in a timpani of echoes
from the bloody coda of harpoon guns.
And we politely applaud for the beauty of it all
forgetting whose tears stain the oceans blue.
Freakin' whales...what would they do without humans? Without us, there would be no one around to detangle them from these predicaments!
:)
"NOAA's whale disentanglement director"
Who would've thought such a job title existed?
Or that "entanglement team from Center Coastal Studies". Weren't they the ones dealing with Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend last week?
The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli...
- "Without us, there would be no one around to detangle them from these predicaments!"
Actually, without us, they wouldnt have garbage/abandoned equipment polluting our waters and posing such dangers.
I believe that's the humor of his comment.
Mr. Splashy Pants!!!
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail/mrsplashypants
I think that comment deserves explanation.