The word " albemuth " was derived by Dick from the Arabic word Al Behemoth, " the whale ", itself an oblique reference to Fomalhaut, the star Dick at one time believed VALIS came from in real life.

The man was told not to go to sea for twenty years, but in the nineteenth year he went fishing and a whale came and killed him.

In the early-to-mid 17th century a whale had found itself stranded in the Mohawk River on an island just below the Cohoes Falls, it was impossible for the Dutch settlers of the area to remove the carcass and as it rotted the river became slick for three weeks from the rotting carcass and one commented that " the air was infected with its stench ... perceptible for two miles to leeward "; around 1646 this island came to be known as Whale Island due to this occurrence.

The first light came from 9 whale oil lamps and was magnified by a large glass reflector.

It came as a surprise, then, when Reid purchased the Herald from Munsey in 1924: at the Herald, a sign was hung up that said " Jonah just swallowed the whale.

Still, even during the time when France did not send official explorers, Breton and Basque fishermen came to the new territories to stock up on codfish and whale oil.

Over the next centuries, the inhabitants lived in isolated parts of the island and were frequently visited by vessels from Faial and Terceira came infrequently to trade whale oil, butter and honey for other products, or those caravels that stopped enroute to Europe.

In 2002, Shamu the whale was replaced by Shouka, who came on a breeding loan from Marineland in Antibes, France.

It accomplished this through an unparalleled elongation of its vertebrae, and has been described as being the closest a whale ever came to a snake.

After unifying the country, he sainted the whale who came to his rescue, which is known today as " Đông Hải phúc thần " ( the deity of Fortune in the East sea ).

In the early years, the dock came to supplement, then supplant, the harbor of Porto Pim for whaling vessels involved in the North Atlantic whale hunt.

The first sign that whale carcasses could host specialized animal communities came in 1854 when a new mussel species was extracted from a piece of floating whale blubber.

The whale tail came on the heels of the 1973 " duck tail " or Bürzel in German ( as a part of the E-program ), a smaller and less flared rear-spoiler fitted to 911 Carrera RS ( meaning Rennsport or race sport in German ), optional outside Germany.

This famous whale also came to the attention of Herman Melville, who published his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851: " at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale ... Sir Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout ; so that like a great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his long cavities — spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan — and swing all day upon his lower jaw.

Even the members of the diving group of Romir was having second thought if the fish is docile, until the instructor led the way into the water and came in contact with the whale shark.

However the artificial whale came loose from its tow-line and drifted away in a fog.

The closest Ford ever came to praising Stewart was when he said, " He did a whale of a job manufacturing a character the public went for.

Along with these progresses came a change over from whale oil to gas for illumination.

Vikings on Greenland also ate whale meat, but archaeologists believe they never hunted them on sea.

In July, 2002, fourteen Alaskans ate muktuk ( whale meat ) from a beached whale, and eight of them developed symptoms of botulism, two of them requiring mechanical ventilation.

When hunting a young whale, a group chases it and its mother until they wear out.

In the U. S., whale oil was used with wicks as the source of light until the Argand parabolic reflector system was introduced around 1810 by Winslow Lewis.

On arrival, they soon find a beached whale which sustains them until spring.

In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.

The bladder would float and exhaust the whale when diving, and when it surfaces ; the Inuit hunters would spear it again, further exhausting the animal until they were able to kill it.

From the Middle Ages until the end of the 19th century, the local fishermen were also whale hunters in winter.

The carcases yielded 42 tons of whale bone used for ' stays ' which were used in the corsetry trade until changes in fashion made them redundant.

They believe themselves lost, until Finch finds them by tracking whale songs from a nearby pod circling the vessel.

On the east coast of the United States, Virginia Beach, Virginia whale watching is a winter activity from the end of December until the middle of March.

Over most of the period from the early 18th century until the late 20th century, the sperm whale was hunted to obtain spermaceti and other products, such as sperm oil and ambergris.

Initially, due to its texture, it could only be processed by hand until it was discovered in that city that by treating it with whale oil, it could be treated by machine The industry boomed (" jute weaver " was a recognised trade occupation in the 1901 UK census ), but this trade had largely ceased by about 1970 due to the appearance of synthetic fibres.

The tropical bottlenose whale ( Indopacetus pacificus ), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale and the Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position.

A feeding frenzy is shown, as striped marlin, tuna and a Sei whale pick off a shoal of sardines until all within it have been consumed.

Although it had been described by John Gray in 1874, until the early 1950s the pygmy killer whale was known only from two skulls kept at the British Museum.

Today, the dwarf sperm whale is generally classified as one of two species, along with the Pygmy sperm whale, in the Kogiidae family and Kogia genus, however it was not until 1966 that the two species were regarded as separate, and even more recently that Kogiidae was regarded as a subfamily ( Kogiinae ) of Physeteridae.

The whale population in the seas around the island was substantially reduced over the following sixty years until the station closed in December 1966, by which time the whale stocks were so low that their continued exploitation was unviable.

Essex sailed in South Atlantic waters and along the coast of Brazil until January 1813 when Captain David Porter undertook the decimation of English whale fisheries in the Pacific.

A stranded whale in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, also decayed until it exploded.

However, the anthracothere ancestors of hippos do not appear in the fossil record until millions of years after Pakicetus, the first known whale ancestor.

In mid-1980, there were three gray whale sightings in the eastern Beaufort Sea, placing them further east than their known range at the time.

South Korea's envoy to the summit, Kang Joon-Suk, said that consumption of whale meat " dates back to historical times " and that there had been an increase in the minke whale population since the ban took place in 1986.

A whale skeleton discovered there in 1990 was proved to be a new whale species ( see Eobalaenoptera harrisoni ).

Eden's Deputy Commissioner, Major A. G. Duff, sent a Mr. Duke, one of his assistants, to Thaybyoo Creek, between the Sittang and Beeling rivers, on the Gulf of Martaban, where he found a 37-ft whale, which had stranded there in June 1871 after swimming more than twenty miles up the creek — it was said to have " exhausted itself by its furious struggles " to get free and " roared like an elephant " before finally expiring.

Prior to 2006, there had only been two confirmed sightings of Bryde's whale in the eastern North Pacific north of Baja California -- one in January 1963, only a kilometer off La Jolla ( originally misidentified as a fin whale ), and another in October 1991 west of Monterey Bay.

While there are no reliable historical population estimates, population models suggest crabeater seal populations may have increased at rates up to 9 % a year in the 20th century, due to the removal of large baleen whales ( especially the blue whale ) during the period of industrial whaling and the subsequent explosion in krill biomass and removal of important competitive forces.

The largest confirmed individual had a length of and a weight of more than, and there are unconfirmed reports of considerably larger whale sharks.

The rapid growth in this area has been attributed to the relatively dense population of Humpback Whales, whose acrobatic behavior such as breaching ( jumping out of the water ) and tail-slapping thrilled observers, and the close proximity of whale populations to the large cities there.

As of 2011, an expert from Cornell University has recorded the vocalizations of six whale species including the humpback, the fin whale, and the massive blue whale within close proximity of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the lower portion of New York Harbor and there is at least one company offering marine life tours out of The Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.

In the beginning there were five tribal societies that represented the elk hunter, the whale hunter, the fisherman, the weather predictor, and the medicine man.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were many irons in use which were heated by a fuel such as kerosene, ethanol, whale oil, natural gas, carbide gas ( acetylene ) as with carbide lamps, or even gasoline.

Andrews ' beaked whale has never been hunted, and there are no records of it being caught in fishing gear.

However, there was a considerable debate as to whether the whale belonged in the genus Mesoplodon or not.

The next major development happened when a paper had shown there were actually six remains of the whale, including a complete female with a fetus found in the Maldives in 2000.

For example, the Whale has a tiny throat from a swallowed mariner who tied a raft in there to block the whale from swallowing others.

However, there are polynyas in the Arctic, which are free of ice owing to the pressure of currents on either side, and such places do provide refuge for some species, like the walrus and the bowhead whale.

Ordinarily, however, the Melon-head is found beyond the continental shelf between 20 ° S and 20 ° N. Hawaii and Cebu, in the Philippines, are good sites for seeing the whale because the continental shelf there is narrow.

A particularly fine, talismanic, whale bone fishook of the 18th century was found there and is now in the Otago Museum.