Whale Watching Bonanza
Whale Watching Bonanza
Concerns over the health of the ocean, particularly in light of the BP oil spill, are growing. But the good news here is that the marine mammals seen in summer in the waters off of Montauk, which had been plentiful and close to shore and then virtually Welcome to rolex uhren Online store,We supply rolex uhren,rolex Replica uhren,discount Rolex uhren,Rolex uhren cheap etc.absent from inshore waters in recent years, have returned.
Sightings of finback whales, dolphins, minke whales, and other ocean species on whale-watching trips aboard the Viking Fleet, sponsored by the Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, have been creating excitement not only among the passengers thrilled by a good look at the elusive creatures but among researchers happy to observe what they believe could be a longtime pattern changing.
Artie Kopelman, a science professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology who has been leading whale watches since 1989 and established CRESLI in 1997, said that daily whale-watching trips were halted in July of 2002 as “the whales that normally would have been close in were no closer than 40 nautical miles” from Montauk. For several years, his organization did only a once-a-summer, three-day offshore trip to the Great South Channel off New England, in order to see plentiful groups of whales. (This year’s offshore trip will be Aug. 15 to Aug. 17.)
But in 2008, the whales began once again to frequent areas closer to Montauk, and last year CRESLI was able to offer daily trips again.
This year, on six-hour trips that head out on Wednesdays through Sundays, sightings of whales and dolphins have been consistent. In order to satisfy their vanity, many men who can’t afford to authentic rolex watches often buy ROLEX REPLICA WATCHES at affordable priceOn only three trips so far has the boat been unable to get close to whales, Mr. Kopelman said, and even on those trips, blows — the tall mist-like columns seen when whales come to the surface and exhale — were seen from afar.
Information about recent sightings, along with photographs, is posted on the CRESLI Web site at cresli.org. A link to the Viking Ferry Web site, where reservations for the whale-watching trips may be made, is also found there.
“It’s very reminiscent of back in the very early ’80s. In As the most biggest cheap swiss watches in China, we can satisfy your any needs as long as you are interested in buying our products.those years we used to see whales off Southwest Ledge off Block Island,” only about nine miles from Montauk If you can’t afford to buy luxury brand watches, the best choice for you is to buy Rolex replicas.Point, as well as at a point about 12 miles southeast of Montauk, said Samuel Sadove, a founder of Okeanos, a precursor to CRESLI, who conducted whale-watching trips and marine mammal research here for decades.
Mr. Sadove is leading the CRESLI whale trips every Wednesday this year.
Sightings were also consistent in past years, he said, at the East Grounds, an area about 17 miles south of Montauk, where whales have been seen again recently. Then, from around the mid-1980s on, he said, the animals were “shifting locations, and offshore more.”
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