Where Whales Become Friends

Salt - the star of Salt & Friends, our award-winning DVD. She is a grandmother with 12 calves and 8 grandcalves.Rocker is a champion breacher. One day he breached out of the water more than a hundred times.Stub is spyhopping. Stub is with Colt on Awesome Whales for Kids. They came up to our boat and began singing. This once in a lifetime event is the bonus chapter on the DVD.Giraffe feeding on small fish. She was named for a string of marks on her fluke that looks like spots on a giraffe's neck.Seal lobtailing which means hitting his tail on the water. Seal was born in 1984 to Mars.

Everyone loves whales and we know their names! (move your cursor over the pictures)

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Whale and Marine Life Video Archives

We have created the world's largest video-based archive of whale and other marine life behaviors.

8,800 hours of unique and irreplaceable footage.

Help us preserve the entire archive and donate it to an organization that will make it available free of charge to all educators, researchers and conservation groups.

Help "Save The Whale" Archives by purchasing any DVD on our site.

 

Executive Summary (click here)

 

Beginning in April 1988, we recorded all marine and ocean life encountered during 68,000 hours cruising Stellwagen Bank in the Gulf of Maine.  The archives run through October 2003.

Common behaviors as well as once in a lifetime sightings have been stored on analog video, more than 8000 video tapes preserve 8800 hours of unique video.

While the primary focus was large baleen whales; dolphins, pinnipeds, pelagic birds and all other forms of marine life are represented.

Approximately 500 known individual humpback whales are identified in the archives, including 100 plus grandmothers and their descendants.

The equivalent of ten years of annotation (documentation) has been completed.  Searching footage by species, individual animal and behavior is possible.

An intensive search is taking place to find a home for this unique and irreplaceable archive for education, research, conservation and commercial use decades in the future.

Inquiries:

Dan Knaub, Founder and Owner

The Whale Video Company

225 Indian Creek Dr

Mechanicsburg PA 17050

USA

Phone: 717/763-9507

e-mail:    danknaub@comcast.net

 

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