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Jan 25, 2021 · How did the rescue logistics and decision-making processes really play out in Utqiaġvik? Why did the whales become trapped in the first place? I was curious to learn more about the whales, and how Utqiaġvik experienced both the massive rescue effort and the Hollywood-ized retelling of its story.
Feb 6, 2012 · Unfortunately, one of the three whales did not survive the rescue attempt, but the other two were safely guided to the channel.
Jan 27, 2012 · The whales were fading. The smallest whale Knik (“snowflake”) had stopped surfacing and had presumably already drowned under the ice. It was time to take a calculated risk to enlist the U.S. government as humble heroes in this mission to try and save the remaining two whales.
Currently you are able to watch "Big Miracle" streaming on Max Amazon Channel. It is also possible to buy "Big Miracle" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Microsoft Store online.
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Feb 13, 2012 · The other enduring mystery in the ‘Big Miracle’ is whether the other two whales survived. A Soviet icebreaker cut a channel to open water in the Chukchi and Bering seas, and Eskimo workers...
Feb 6, 2012 · The movie, starring Drew Barrymore as a Greenpeace volunteer (whose character was based on a real Greenpeace representative), dramatizes the events of October 1988, when the world had all eyes on...
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It stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film is based on Tom Rose's 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.
