Scientists spot white killer whale off Alaska (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship's crew scrambling for their cameras.

The nearly mythic creature was real after all.

"I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it," said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle who photographed the rarity. "It was quite neat to find it."

The whale was spotted last month while scientists aboard the Oscar Dyson, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship, were conducting an acoustic survey of pollock near Steller sea lion haulout sites.

It had been spotted once in the Aleutians years ago but had eluded researchers since, even though they had seen many of the more classic black and white whales over the years.


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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/07/white.killer.whale.ap/index.html

[KingOfLostSouls]

1. thats cool

[seasat]

2. Shh! Don't tell Shrubbie.

After his Iraq debacle, he's likely to go all Captain Ahab on us over it.

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."

[Lilyhoney]

3. Between the 11th and 12th paragraph in Moby Dick...

"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN."



My reference
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville


I have yet to read the book but thought you might find this interesting.