Later in life I returned to the photographs I'd taken in Antarctica – and my memories – and started painting scenes of whaling ships. I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the ...

It will be replaced by a modern vessel next year ... Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei Maru, a new whaling mother ship that will succeed the decommissioned Nisshin Maru, has been built here. A signing ceremony for its delivery was held ...

Salvesen’s had two factory ships which were like a floating whaling station, but far more cramped – they could fully process the whales, and house hundreds of whalers and technicians like me.

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru. Rather than carving up the carcasses on deck, often in bad weather, the workers will now be able to ...

The anti-whaling group's ships have confronted ships off Antarctica each year since 2005. Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said the group could no longer match Japan's surveillance technology.

But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first plundering the rich pickings off the South American coast ...

With his long silver locks and rugged beard, Paul Watson resembles a modern-day Captain Ahab ... guerilla-style tactics to block and harass whaling ships. But a new twist in an ongoing legal ...

Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data about shifting ... We can compare that to modern-day observations that we get from satellites or metrological stations.” ...

Almost like on deck' - From his cell in the modern ... Watson has one ship stationed in each hemisphere, ready to jump into ...