Subject: Data/NSB/May 17 1997/Center for Oceanic Research and Education/Yankee Spirit (fwd)
mike williamson (williams@www1.wheelock.edu)
Tue, 20 May 1997 10:22:52 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:25:56 -0700
From: "Yankee Fleet: Carol Hill/Lisa Foerster" <yankee@tiac.net>
To: whalenet@whale.simmons.edu
Subject: Data/NSB/May 17 1997/Center for Oceanic Research and Education/Yankee Spirit
Center for Oceanic Research and Education
Gloucester, Massachusetts
17 May 1997, 1330 trip
Weather: gray, increasing clouds, rain
Cloud Cover: total
wind speed: 15-18 knots and increasing
Direction: West
Visibility: 9 kilometers
sea height: 3-6 feet
Swell: 2-3 feet
High Tide: 08:22
Recorder: Lisa Foerster
Species # Time Loran Behavior ID photos
MN 1-2 1453 13810/44252 not observed, in area
MN 1 1454-1534 13812/44250 BREACHING 97-17L, 29+30
"NILE"
MN 2 1454 13812/44250 not observed, in area
MN 1 1454 13812/44250 not observed, in area
MN 1 1515 13820/44248 not observed, in area
MN 1 1525 13823/44248 not observed, in area
MN 2 1525-1534 13823/44248 travelling toward NILE
MN 1 1525 13823/44248 not observed, in area
MN 1 1525 13823/44248 not observed, in area
MN 3 1534-1547 13823/44247 NILE is joined by 2 whales from
above. Ids - 97-7L, 31, 32, 33
Names unknown
Trip total: 11 or 12 humpback whales
Birds observed: Herring Gulls, Greater Black-Backed Gulls, Double Crested Cormorants,
Bonapartes Gulls, Laughing Gulls, Northern Gannetts, Wilson's Storm Petrels, Common
Terns, Ring-Billed Gulls.