How To Use Whaler In A Sentence

In the 1997 season Norwegian whalers in 31 vessels killed 503 Minke whales of their 580-whale quota.
Some ziphiids are pursued by whalers for their oil and spermaceti.
A series of mainly South American fisherman have been hauled back to Australia with their ships and prosecuted after they were caught fishing near southern Heard Island, and HSI said it hoped to see similar action against whalers.
Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
Mr. Fischer depicts Champlain as a wise gleaner of facts who listened to Basque whalers, Breton fishermen, African slaves -- anyone who could impart information. A Forgotten Explorateur

According to local legend, the killer whales would even guide the tiny whale boats out to the hunt so that the whalers could harpoon and lance the harassed animal.
I'm not saying the characters aren't trite, I'm just saying the film goes out of its way to portray the whalers as uninformed rather than demonizing them.
The photo released by the Oceanic Viking carried a headline alleging a mother minke whale and her calf were taken by Japanese whalers .
Had Dr Barbara and the women abandoned the island, taking passage on a visiting whaler ? RUSHING TO PARADISE
Makah whalers threw harpoons on three occasions, but the harpoons did not attach to a gray whale on any of these attempts.
Apart from driving, the group is also involved in research activities of aquamarines, especially the Copper Shark or the bronze whaler.
In the 1960s, the Soviet Union built the Sovetskaya Rossiya, a whaler the size of an aircraft carrier.
On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.
Cosens and Innes observed few bowheads south of Wager Bay, where American whalers found high densities of bowheads from 1860 into the 1870s.
The Falklands were colonised by house sparrows travelling aboard a fleet of whalers from Uruguay.
In the 1800s, missionaries brought cakes, Chinese brought chicken, and Norwegian whalers brought salmon marinated with onion and tomato (lomi salmon).
A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head. Peter the Whaler
On the morning of 11 February 1944, off the Norwegian coast, Stubborn sighted a convoy of seven ships escorted by four trawlers, a whaler and an aircraft.
From 1845 to about 1900, American whalers hunted gray whales on their winter grounds in Baja California, as well as their summer grounds in the subarctic.
The most common sharks found off the Mid West coast were tiger sharks, black tip reef sharks and bronze whalers.
Brad Satchell, 44, said he was surfing off Scarborough Beach near the western city of Perth on Friday when the shark, probably a bronze whaler, swam up to him.
But here they are again, six whalers sitting as they used to, straddling chairs built from wooden boxes with binoculars attached to the high backs.
Over the years whalers have reported finding a high number of large squid beaks in the mammals' stomachs, pegging sperm whales as primary predators of large squid.
The iceberg Lincoln had mistaken for a whaler was a flat-top, a mile long. The Whale Warriors
The whaler spent his time moving up and down the Murrumbidgee River.
A whaler is a bushman who is on the loaf.
From that time forward we saw no whales for six weeks, and, from the reports we received from two whalers we "gammed," it appeared that we might consider ourselves most fortunate in our catch, since they, who had been longer on the ground than ourselves, had only one whale apiece. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
Cold-stiff hands and aching shoulders hauled on the guys tied to the fore and aft cleats of the whaler until it was drawn back on board the ship.
We can be 140 kilometres from the sea, and yet there'll be bronze whalers, stingrays, the highest level of freshwater turtle diversity in Australia.
Whaling reached its peak in New Bedford in 1857, when the city was home port to 329 registered vessels, half the total number of whalers in the service of the United States.
Whalers were followed by the settlers, shagroons and squattocracy.
Both the letters and the Bulletin contain descriptions of the whalers, prospectors, government agents, and other missionaries who lived in Alaska at that time, as well as depictions of Inupiat life.
When the Makahs stopped whaling in the 1920s it was because commercial whalers, harpooning all they could find, had nearly driven the gray whales to extinction.
What whalers term schools are assemblages of female cachalots in large numbers - from twenty to a hundred, together with their young, called calves, and piloted by one or more adult males, called bulls.
On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.
Second, it is a valuable historical document, shedding light on the history of Marlborough and Nelson, the whaling industry, and the relationships between the whalers and the Maori in the area.
Willoughby, who was travelling loose, was a whaler.
Make no mistake - makos, hammerheads, threshers, tigers, whites, whalers and six-gilled sharks all go over 1000 lb, and some of them with ease.
The whaler was the worst offender in a dirty business. The Whale Warriors
Mrs Cuffe offered Whaler's shed and Mrs Hooper wondered whether it was seemly with him only just buried. THE MAIN CAGES
After losing almost all their equipment, including the major's jacket' they drifted in their dinghy until seen by a Japanese whaler. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Make no mistake - makos, hammerheads, threshers, tigers, whites, whalers and six-gilled sharks all go over 1000 lb, and some of them with ease.
The boat turned out to be a chalupa from the 1500s, built and used by Basque whalers.
After drinking some beer, a whaler I once saw got up and started to fight with himself.
The bronze whaler shark is the guy who slowly swims up through the centre of this meatball, jaws open wide and chomping.
The most common shark attacks are from tigers, dusky whalers and bull sharks.
The International Whaling Commission has granted the whalers of the island of Bequia with Aboriginal Whaling Status.
Mr Raha, when he was called on to build it, designed a long double-ended whaler, with a wide beam, and a keel hewn from a single log.
Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry.
Bridges or footbridges on the whaler are washed by the storm, so you have to be very careful not to fall into the sea.
But a dive with the whalers, whitetips and hammerheads at the North Horn dive site is an experience like no other - and something that every person who dives owes to themselves to do at least once.
Jill and I did take the boat — a large, underpowered Whaler that leaked up to a point and stopped once the bottom was full — for a cruise to an amazing snorkeling spot.
Mrs Cuffe offered Whaler's shed and Mrs Hooper wondered whether it was seemly with him only just buried. THE MAIN CAGES
The Coast Guard cutter Bear became a familiar sight in Alaskan waters, rescuing icebound whalers, providing medical services for the Eskimos, and enforcing the international seal protection treaty.
Since the international ban on whaling 21 years ago, cruising sailboats have replaced whalers as the primary visitors to the islands.
Back in the days when whalers hunted sperm whales, they often reported seeing fish fly through the air when the leviathans surfaced.
I'm sitting behind Tommy and five other former whalers in a whale observation tent high above the choppy seas of Cook Strait.
The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
And if they dumped the carronades here, it means the Southern Princess is here too, a complete wreck of a 200-ton early nineteenth-century whaler.
‘It should give the sick whaler medical aid but ensure the ship does not return to the kill,’ Greens Party leader Bob Brown said in a statement.
Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.
While in Halfmoon Bay the party went to Kaipipi where the Norwegian whalers had their base and saw the foundations of old buildings, much ironware, and a large boiler.
However, the island's desolation was offset by whalers who came aboard from the ships Emma Jane and Roswell King.
Those reports also found a wide readership among other explorers, and the southern ocean soon teemed with whalers and sealers from all over the world.
Between 1831 and 1834 he worked as a whaler and sealer and organised whaling stations around the coast even before South Australia was established in 1836.
In the pictures here were it a normal circumstance, the whaler is the give way vessel. ‘Capt.’ Paul Watson, COME ON DOWN! You’re the Grand Prize Winner in Bob Barker’s Animal Jihad! - Vladimir’s blog - RedState
Prosaic and uneventful to the last degree was our passage, the only incident worth recording being our "gamming" of the PASSAMAQUODDY, of Martha's Vineyard, South Sea whaler; eighteen months out, with one thousand barrels of sperm oil on board. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
In response to what the Inuits considered to be an attack on their traditions, life and culture, Alaska whalers formed the Alaskan Eskimo Whaling Commission to represent themselves and negotiate for a higher quota.
Her owner, on his maiden voyage, was all duck trousers; the captain, distinguished for the enormous yachtsman's cap he wore, was a Murrumbidgee [Footnote: The Murrumbidgee is a small river winding among the mountains of Australia, and would be the last place in which to look for a whale.] whaler before he took command of the _Akbar_; and the navigating officer, poor fellow, was almost as deaf as a post, and nearly as stiff and immovable as a post in the ground. Sailing Alone Around the World
On 10 November 1841, Kahe and John Nicoll, a whaler, were formerly married on board a ship off the coast of Kapiti.
Brave whalers were pitted against the mysterious powers of the deep, as represented by the huge whale.
Mixed rain and snow swirled thick about them like a promise of violence; the night-black water lay deep and viscid with cold, and seemed to suck at the whaler as though wishing to swallow it into black oblivion and sea-death.
He was told to go and assert British law over the lawless whalers, sealers, timber merchants, and other settlers.
Earlier in the day, a 31-year-old man was attacked by a bronze whaler shark while spearfishing near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
By contrast, a Portuguese-speaking whaler in search of provisions among Inupiaq Eskimos on the northern coast of what is now Alaska was more likely, one hundred twenty years ago, to use a hodgepodge lingua franca employing Inupiaq and some Portuguese words, but also English and even Hawaiian—tongues of those who had previous contact with speakers of Inupiaq. The English Is Coming!
Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry.
Expecting Grady either to board or to sink the whaler, Anthony nudged his ship westward - and waited.
The whaler was a kind of pirate-miner - an excavator of oceanic oil, stoking the furnace of the Industrial NYT > Home Page
Visitors can learn about the volcanic birth of the Hawaiian Islands and the adventures of the early Polynesian voyagers, European explorers and whalers.
The name was coined by whalers, who considered the species the ‘right’ whale to hunt because its blubber makes dead whales float, aiding recovery of the carcass.
Back in colonial times, Spanish whaler José Manuel jumped ship in New Zealand and, as was the custom of the time, took several wives.
South African white shark dive operators reportedly catch juvenile bronze whaler and smooth hammerhead sharks to use as bait.
And they pulled me inboard, and they put me right up in the bow, of the whaler, and they covered me with a tarpaulin or something.
We had heard many glowing accounts from visitors, when "gamming," of the delights of this well-known port of call for whalers, and under our new commander we had little doubt that we should be allowed considerable liberty during our stay. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
Biology played an important role in southern exploration(Sentencedict), for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.
They were so apt to lie about the size of the ‘whales’ they caught that a generic name -- whaler -- for this class of unemployable traveller came into being.
Whaling ended here in 1964 and since then the nearby whaling station rusted to a skeleton, the whalers dispersed and their numbers declined much like the whales.
The right whale gets its name from whalers who deemed it a particularly good species to hunt, because it floats after being killed.
Nonetheless, the film is intelligently and movingly constructed, and unquestionably catches at critical themes and undercurrents of the book, including its sympathy for the whalers ' harsh existence.
The photo released by the Oceanic Viking carried a headline alleging a mother minke whale and her calf were taken by Japanese whalers .
In the 1790s, the islands began to attract whalers from Europe who established the first settlements on the coast.
I had ordered four friends into the tender, an 18-foot Boston Whaler, while Dan and I stayed aboard.
The size and speed of blue whales once served to discourage human whalers in the days of sail-powered ships and hand-thrown harpoons.
A number of soapie mulloway have been taken around Mindarie marina, with small whalers reasonably common along northern metro beaches. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
That first night with us on board the whaler was a fearful time. The Honour of the Flag
For centuries, American and European whalers and explorers had frequented Arctic waters at will, living off the land and the seas as they saw fit,.
The explosion on board the whaler had driven in a section of the frigate's hull, but once the canvas fother was in place the pumps at last could begin to win the battle. Sharpe's Devil
Each man was sure his harpoon was the first thrown; so with hearts full of fury and fear, the brave whalers of The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Fisheries science has long argued that whalers were killing too many whales and that their numbers were dwindling alarmingly.
The whaler was the swifter of the two ships, and she could soon have overhauled the other; but fearing some treachery, the captain refrained from running her down until daylight. Great Pirate Stories
He lived with his mum and his nan, two enormous, frightening women, who would often wade into fights to defend their son's honour, which was bloody, often and reminded one of Norwegian whalers flensing their catch of blubber.
By contrast, a Portuguese-speaking whaler in search of provisions among Inupiaq Eskimos on the northern coast of what is now Alaska was more likely, one hundred twenty years ago, to use a hodgepodge lingua franca employing Inupiaq and some Portuguese words, but also English and even Hawaiian—tongues of those who had previous contact with speakers of Inupiaq. The English Is Coming!
Over the years whalers have reported finding a high number of large squid beaks in the mammals' stomachs, pegging sperm whales as primary predators of large squid.
These pidgins resembled the one resorted to by our Portuguese-speaking whaler and his Inupiaq-speaking interlocutors: they were never spoken as mother tongues. The English Is Coming!
Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left.
I dipped my head under and saw that we were being scrutinised by a large shark - a bronze whaler.
According to local legend, the killer whales would even guide the tiny whale boats out to the hunt so that the whalers could harpoon and lance the harassed animal.
When the large and splendidly-built city of Dunedin, Otago, was a barren bush, haunted only by the "morepork" and the apteryx, Russell was humming with vitality, her harbour busy with fleets of ships, principally whalers, who found it the most convenient calling-place in the southern temperate zone. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.
Satellite imagery becomes useful for interpreting ice conditions to be faced by whalers no later than early March (6-7 weeks before the first whales arrive).
From mid-April to June, however, whalers would permit only benign conditions to prevail - NE winds, uninterrupted by reversals or surges in winds, currents, or ice motion - to keep the alongshore flaw zone accessible to boats.
On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whalers, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.
No man had ever set foot on Mount Egmont's utmost peak - the mountain was considered tapu by the local Maori and the European whalers who lived at Ngamotu turned their backs to the mighty cone and looked to the sea.
The going and the coming of a "whaler" made Crip's father, Mr. John St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
The whalers often discovered giant squid beaks inside the stomachs of these whales.
Weyler is one of those who went out on the open sea in tiny boats, looking the whalers in the eye until they finally blinked.
Those groups are the remnants of populations that were decimated by whalers and other seafarers who killed the creatures for food.
Three days after, when the carcass of the _cachalot_ had been "flensed" and tried out, and the whaler had once more proceeded upon her cruise, she chanced upon a spot where the sea was strewn with a variety of objects, among which were two or three spars of a ship, and several empty water-casks. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
Lloyd learned how the ship had been "nipped;" how, after inconceivable toil, the members of the expedition had gained the land; how they had marched southward toward the Chuckch settlements; how, at the eleventh hour, the survivors, exhausted and starving, had been rescued by the steam whalers; how these whalers themselves had been caught in the ice, and how the survivors of the Freja had been obliged to spend another winter in the Arctic. A Man's Woman
Sure enough, about two miles to the leeward of us was a fine barque, at once pronounced a 'spouter' (whaler), and an American. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
She soon attracts the eye and organ of Jack Guard, ex-convict, sealer, whaler and hard bargainer, dour, decent, driven man.
The whalers argued that they knew this from their own experience as whale hunters and that hunting had historically been restricted to the summer months because of the weather rather than the absence of pseudomigratory whales.
Early in the nineteenth century crews of visiting ships came looking for flax, and from 1829 whalers came to share the bounty in this southern area.
Japanese whalers have left Australia's Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ), and are now heading for the waters of the Ross Dependency, which is under the claim of New Zealand. Blogger News Network
This attracted whalers and fishing vessels, as well as the natural deep water which was a suitable harbour to sea vessels on voyage around Cape of Good Hope.
Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.
There are four species which concern us, and they are the hammerhead shark, the white shark, the bull whaler shark and the tiger shark.
Whalers face the threat of government reprisals should they start a commercial hunt which has been banned since 1985.
There are four species which concern us, and they are the hammerhead shark, the white shark, the bull whaler and the tiger shark.
In the chill of the Arctic and Antarctic, as in the chill of the deep abyss, the sperm whale is warmed by what whalers call ‘the blanket’, which is eight inches of blubber.
On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.

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