Word: finback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, complementing the fifty-foot finback whale hanging from the ceiling in the last exhibit room is a model of a whaling ship and an eyewitness account of a harpooning expedition which yielded "83 barrels of oil and 1000 pounds of whalebone, worth...
...hard to say when a species is out of danger. Blue whales, for instance, live in deep water far away from coasts, making it impossible for census takers in boats or planes to get an accurate count. In the North Atlantic the U.S. Navy is helping biologists track blue, finback and minke whales by using submarine- detection systems that pick up whale sounds...
...young pilot in 1944, he bailed out of a burning plane and spent several hours bobbing aimlessly in the Pacific before being picked up by a submarine. If, as Bush later claimed, he took time "to talk to God" after his rescue, crew members of the U.S.S. Finback didn't notice: what they most remember about the young man they nicknamed "Elephant" was his thunderous imitation of a pachyderm on a mad stampede...