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The Whale Museum is also a partner in the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network, SeaSound. [5] The hydrophones detect whale vocalizations, vessel noise and other underwater sounds in the area. The Whale Museum mainly uses the hydrophone off Lime Kiln Point State Park, where they have maintained a research laboratory since 1983.
The humpback whale skeleton Quasimodo was moved to the new Jacobs Family Gallery and suspended alongside a new juvenile blue whale skeleton, named KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean). In October 2001, negotiations began to merge the Kendall Whaling Museum, which was founded in 1955 by Henry P. Kendall and opened in 1956, with the New Bedford Whaling ...
The museum is host to a host of international conferences related to marine life and to whales. [19] Exhibits include Southern Actor, a whale catcher built 1950 for Chr. Salvesen & Co. of Leith, Scotland. Today the restored vessel is a museum ship open to the public. The former whale catcher is both a living museum and a passenger ship. [20] [21]
A thrifty study uncovers a wealth of data about one of the world's largest and most elusive species.
Blue whales have returned to a part of the Indian Ocean where the species was once wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers in the Seychelles have captured footage of the marine mammals in ...
KOBO hanging in the Jacobs Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) is the skeleton of a 66-foot-long (20 m) juvenile blue whale on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The whale was accidentally struck and killed by a tanker and brought ashore in Rhode Island in March ...
James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
The 25.2 m (83 ft) skeleton was kept in storage until 1934, when it went on display in the museum's new Mammal Hall, suspended above a similarly sized plaster model of a blue whale. It was taken down in 2015 for conservation work, and redisplayed in 2017, suspended from the ceiling in the museum's main entrance hall, the Hintze Hall , in a ...