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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.
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...
Plot. In small town Alaska 1988, Adam Carlson, a news reporter, recruits his ex-girlfriend Rachel – a Greenpeace volunteer – on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Adam names the father Fred, the mother Wilma, and the infant Bamm-Bamm.
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.
Roy Ahmaogak was spending that Friday afternoon peering at distant open water from a tall offshore ice ridge, scouting for whales for his father's crew. Clambering over the freshly frozen sea...
Feb 10, 2012 · In the movie Big Miracle, Malik is the captain who guides the paddling of the umiak toward the whale in the opening scene. He is a fictitious Malik, but is named for a real Malik who I have...
Jan 25, 2021 · The 2012 film stars Drew Barrymore, who plays a Greenpeace activist, and John Krasinski, a television reporter covering the story. In late September 1988, three gray whales became trapped in the sea ice just off Point Barrow.
