A breaching whale has capsized a boat and sent two people flying into the water. Video shows how a humpback whale suddenly appeared out of the water before flipping over a small, 23-foot (7m) vessel.

Boaters off the New Hampshire coast have a whale of a tail to tell after a humpback whale slammed into a fishing boat and a ...

Japanese government maintains that it only allows commercial whaling within the territorial sea and its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The launch of the new mother ship coincides with Kyodo ...

The internet was amazed by one lucky couple's encounter with a whale as they filmed the majestic creature swimming right under their boat. A video shared by wildlife photographer Domenic Biagini ...

Icelanders are at a point of reckoning – how to balance traditional practices with contemporary realities. Read more at ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November 1961. I worked on the Southern Venturer this season — the last that Edinburgh-based Christian Salvesen ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei Maru, a new whaling mother ship that will succeed the decommissioned Nisshin Maru, has been built here. A signing ceremony for its delivery was held ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

"The Kangei Maru is the first step toward passing on the 'offshore mother ship whaling' method forever," declared Kyodo Senpaku president Tokoro Hideki. To coincide with the launch, Shimonoseki ...

An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team ... he learned: When a whale comes, a spotter calls out its position, urging the crew to launch. “When they’re close, [the noise] is not faint, ...