For years, the world knew his name for one reason. Tilikum. The giant orca at SeaWorld Orlando. The whale connected to headlines, controversy, fear, and one of the most powerful […]
Meta description: Hugo was a young orca captured from the waters of Washington and sent to Miami Seaquarium. His life in captivity became one of the darkest stories ever told […]
Meta description: A strange encounter between a humpback whale and a diver became one of the most discussed whale stories ever. At first, the whale’s behavior looked confusing — but […]
At first, it felt impossible to understand. A giant humpback whale was pressing dangerously close to a diver in open water, nudging her again and again, lifting her with its […]
Here is a fact that stops most people cold: in all of recorded history, there has never been a single confirmed case of a wild orca killing a human being. […]
Every morning, she came back. The same stretch of cold grey water. The same quiet bay. The same empty space between the floating ice and the dark cliffs in the […]
Somewhere in the vast, trackless ocean, an old whale is leading her family along a path she cannot see. There are no landmarks out here, no signs, no roads — […]
In the cold waters of northern Norway, fishermen once saw something they could hardly believe. A white beluga whale was swimming near their boat. He was calm, curious, and strangely […]
For nearly a quarter of a century, sailors crossing one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world were met by an unlikely guardian. Not a lighthouse. Not […]
In October 1985, a whale appeared where a whale was never supposed to be. He was not in the open Pacific, where humpbacks belong during their long migrations. He was […]