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		<title>Photos of Humpback whales feeding in Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has got some great photos of humpback whales feeding off Chatham Strait in south-east Alaska. You can see them on Guardian&#8217;s website.]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot whales beached in NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the New Zealand Herald, 63 pilot whales beached themselves at Colville Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula on Sunday.  Department of Conservation workers and hundreds of volunteers managed to get around 2/3rds of them back out to sea, but the others died on the beach. These are being buried by Maori from a local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diving with orcas</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/diving-with-orcas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week some New Zealand divers doing a navigation training session got a bit more than they bargained for when a large orca and a calf swam into a reef channel near where they were.  The larger one was apparently a whale that was 7 metres long and it came within touching distance of instructor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paddleboard champion meets humpback whale</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/paddleboard-champion-meets-humpback-whale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[World paddleboard champion (what&#8217;s a paddleboard?), Jamie Mitchell, was being filmed for a documentary when a pod of humpback whales began playing around him. There were about 4 whales, presumably migrating to warmer waters around northern Australia for calving. You can find out more from Times Online&#8217;s website, where the above photo comes from.]]></description>
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		<title>Sociable Killer Whales</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fish eating killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Avacha gulf off the coast of Russia tend to live in pods of 10-20 whales. But scientists have now observed 8 such pods coming together to form a super-pod of over 100 animals. This behaviour has also been seen in other parts of the world, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead fin whale found on cruise ship&#8217;s bow</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/dead-fin-whale-found-on-cruise-ships-bow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/dead-fin-whale-found-on-cruise-ships-bow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, SCMP were reporting that a dead fin whale was spotted on the bow of a cruise ship as it arrived in Vancouver last Saturday. An investigation is now under way to try and find out if it was killed by the ship, or whether it was already dead when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auckland orcas feeding on stingrays</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/auckland-orcas-feeding-on-stingrays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pod of orca are hunting near Auckland&#8217;s Tamaki Drive, attracting crowds of onlookers. Two adult orcas and 3 &#8211; 4 juveniles are believed to be hunting stingrays, which they are throwing into the air and eating. New Zealand orcas are the only known group that eat stingrays as a staple food. This often means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infra red camera promises better count of Antarctic Minke whales</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/infra-red-camera-promises-better-count-of-antarctic-minke-whales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/infra-red-camera-promises-better-count-of-antarctic-minke-whales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on whales, this time Minke whales. Australian have used an infra red camera to find whales that have dived under the surface of Antarctic waters. The camera is mounted on an aircraft flying over the pack ice and is able to identify trails of warmer water that are left behind when a whale breaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Humpback Update</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/hong-kong-humpback-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/hong-kong-humpback-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Standard this morning, the Hong Kong Humpback has moved slowly from the Lamma channel to Po Toi (perhaps lured by the excellent seafood restaurant that we were at 10 days ago).  According to the article, experts now think that it may be a confused juvenile. It&#8217;s probably confused because it&#8217;s wondering what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Humpback</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/hong-kong-humpback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/hong-kong-humpback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.divethoughts.com/?p=947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 10 metre humpback whale that was spotted in the East Lamma Channel was yesterday off Cape d&#8217;Aguilar. Dr Hung, director of the Hong Kong Cetacean Research Project, believes it is swimming normally and is hopeful that left to its own devices, it will make its way out of Hong Kong waters and find its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humpback whale seen in Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/humpback-whale-seen-in-hong-kong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/humpback-whale-seen-in-hong-kong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday a humbpack whale was spotted in the East Lamma Channel by Marine Police, who alerted the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. This is the first record of such a creature in Hong Kong waters. It is possible that humpback whales could pass close to Hong Kong  as they migrate between their breeding grounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More whales stranded in Tasmania</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/more-whales-stranded-in-tasmania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week about 200 whales beached themselves on the southern end of King Island in Tasmania. The good news is that rescuers have managed to help get 54 pilot whales and 5 dolphins back into deep water, but these were the only survivors. Tasmania is on the migration path for many whales coming up [...]]]></description>
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