Protecting whales from ship strikes
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In the summer of 2022, I was walking on the beach at Half Moon Bay in California, when I saw the strangest thing approaching on the waves. When it struck the shore and deflated, I knew: it was a dead whale.
But it wasn't just any whale. It was Fran.
"I knew this whale, and I'm like, Ohhhhh. It just hit my heart, because Fran, at the time, she was the most well-known whale in our entire database," said Ted Cheeseman, the creator of HappyWhale.com. That's a database of whale sightings, which includes more than 850 pictures of Fran the humpback whale, identified by her tail markings.
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