Center for Coastal Studies:
The Center for Coastal Studies was the first to attempt and successfully free entangled whales in the wild using techniques they developed and are now used worldwide. Contact them at PO Box 1036, Provincetown, MA 02657-1036. Phone: 508-487-3622. Fax: 508-487-4495.
Learn what heroic effort it takes to save a 50-ton whale from a life-threatening entanglement. Many whales die each year from entanglements in fishing nets and lines. Thanks to the Center for Coastal Studies Whale Rescue Team, many are saved.
Check out the Center for Coastal Studies web site.
Orcas In Captivity:
Visit this website documenting captive whale incidents and make your own decisions:
Cape Cod Stranding Network:
Think captive whales are happy? Many incidents of injured trainers and troubled whales are kept low profile or out of the media. This writer found these incidents disturbing, especially when it is infromation that has been kept from us. With knowledge, we can make better informed choices about our recreation. Captive whales are trying to speak out for themselves, but we're not being allowed to listen.
Orcas In Captivity
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, sees the highest occurrences of whale strandings of any location in the world. The Cape Cod Stranding Network is a trained team of volunteers prepared to arrive at the scene of a stranding promptly to initiate help, often in frigid temperatures.
Learn about them at the Cape Cod Stranding Network site.
This writer volunteering in a rehab program.
This dolphin was eventually successfully released.
