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Feb 6, 2012 · Operation Breakthrough. On the other side of the frozen ice, a Soviet icebreaker was cutting a miles-long channel through the ice to give the whales an easier path.
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Feb 6, 2012 · Experts move sea ice out of the way for the two surviving gray whales during 1988's Operation Breakthrough, as the mission was called.
On October 7, 1988, Inupiaq hunter Roy Ahmaogak discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] The hunter used a chainsaw to attempt cutting a path in the ice leading to open water.
Feb 26, 2023 · On October 7, 1988, 'Operation Breakthrough' was a rare US-Soviet cooperation to free three juvenile gray whales that became trapped in pack-ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow, Alaska....
Feb 7, 2012 · Almost 25 years ago, the world's attention was rapt on three gray whales stranded by encroaching sea ice off the coast of Alaska and the effort to free them.
On October 7, 1988, a hunter reported three gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) trapped in pack ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, United States. The rescue effort that followed, nicknamed “Operation Breakthrough,” involved regional, national, and international cooperation.
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Jan 27, 2012 · We were waging an all-out battle to stop the whaling industry in three countries, with our attention focused on Iceland which was killing endangered fin whales as part of its so-called “research” whaling program.
