SF News That Gray Whale Who Spent a Record Two Months In San Francisco Bay Has Died It was not a good sign that a gray whale had been sticking in the waters of the SF Bay since February, and we now know he’d been hit by ships twice, and has been found dead at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
SF News Dead Gray Whale Washes Up at Crissy Field, Gets Towed to Angel Island for Necropsy It's whale season again, both in the Bay and along the NorCal coast, and unfortunately that also means it's dead whale season — and a deceased gray whale washed ashore at Crissy Field on Wednesday morning.
SF News Humpback Whale Arrives in SF Bay in Early March, Believed To Be Earliest Feeding Here Yet The resurging humpback whale scene usually starts in late April or May, but a few whale spottings in the SF Bay last week indicate their calendars may be springing forward.
SF News Possibly Sickly Humpback Whale Still Refusing To Leave The Bay, May Be Getting Better A humpback whale who spent two weeks lounging around Alameda — earning the nickname Allie — appeared to have crossed the Bay Monday and was spotted in Islais Creek Channel, near the industrial part of Dogpatch in San Francisco.
SF News Video: Ultra-Rare Sighting Of Baird's Beaked Whale Pod Off Monterey Coast Whale watchers and marine biologists got an especially rare treat last week when a pod of two dozen Baird's beaked whales surfaced near a whale-watching boat off the coast of Monterey, and stayed long enough to be captured on drone video.
SF News Ninth Dead Gray Whale Washes Ashore, This Time At Ocean Beach Another dead whale washed ashore Monday morning, and while the cause of death is not yet known, it's part of an ongoing trend this migration season.
SF News Photo: Dead Humpback Whale Washes Up Near Pebble Beach The carcass of a dead humpback whale appeared along a Monterey County beach on Sunday, first seen floating in the water near Bird Rock in Pebble Beach. NBC Bay Area had the news,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Humpback Whale Breaching Off Baker Beach A sight to see! Photographer captures whale breaching in San Francisco Bay. https://t.co/fHczLkMg7b pic.twitter.com/kGvG2UecxO— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) July 15, 2017 We've had a wealth of whale
SF News Watch This Crissy Field Kiteboarder Slam Into A Humpback Whale When kiteboarder Andrei Grigoriev headed out to Crissy Field on June 18 he likely expected stiff breezes, perhaps, or thrilling waves. He probably wasn't expecting to collide with a giant humpback whale --
SF News Boater Collides With Whale, Both Still At Large It’s been another happening year for whale sightings, bringing great delight to both tourists and locals who whale watch. But it hasn’t all been great for the whales, as the Chronicle
SF News Massive Blue Whale, Killed By Boat Strike, Washes Up In Bolinas The carcass of a 79-foot blue whale washed ashore on Agate Beach in Bolinas on Friday morning, and marine scientists from the California Academy of Sciences and the Marine Mammal Center have determined
SF News Bill To Promote Whale Safety Amid Rising Fishing Gear Entanglements Heads To Governor's Desk State Senator Mike McGuire has responded to a record number of whales entrapped by debris such as crab fishing gear along the California coast with a bill that would create a regulatory program
SF News Latest Dead Bay Area Whale Was Hit By Ship, Had Messed-Up Spine The necropsy results are in on the fifth dead whale to wash up on Bay Area shores since April. While they aren't completely conclusive (what in this life is?), it sounds like the
SF News Today In Bay Area Dead Whales: Juvenile Gray Whale Washes Up In Wildlife Refuge In the fifth such incident since April, a "badly decomposed" whale turned up on a Bay Area beach late Wednesday, this one at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. East
SF News Kayakers Almost Crushed By Breaching Whale Think Whale Saved Their Lives It turns out that one of the people in that kayak from the crazy video of the breaching humpback whale in Monterey Bay last week is a British documentary filmmaker named Tom Mustill
SF News Another Dead Whale Washes Up In Pacifica Another dead whale has washed ashore in Northern California, adding to this year's growing tally of marine mammal carcasses. According to Bay Cities News, the body was found Sunday morning on Pacifica's Esplanade
SF News Video: Crazy Numbers Of Whales Showing Up Around The Bay It's not just that family of humpbacks spotted in the Bay in May, or these whales frollicking near Seal Rock two weeks ago there's actually hundreds more whales showing up, particularly between the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Some Whales Frolicking Near Seal Rock Last Night Richmond SF posted this video from a reader that was shot around 7:30 p.m. Monday evening, as the sun was setting near Seal Rock at Ocean Beach. It was "shot from
SF News Family Of Humpback Whales Vacationing In The Bay A trio of humpback whales has been spotted cavorting in San Francisco Bay this week in a fairly rare sighting. As Mary Jane Schramm of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
SF News Video: Gigantic Sperm Whale Washes Up In Pacifica If you smell a strange odor as you're headed through Pacifica, it might not be the cosy burg's usual funk: a dead whale, 49 feet in length, was discovered Tuesday morning on the
Arts & Entertainment Migrating Whales Make Pit Stops At Alcatraz, Ferry Building, Angel Island Not even whales on their way to sex and dinner are immune to San Francisco's charms, as in recent days at least three have taken a detour from their annual migration down the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Whale Watching Huge schools of anchovies moved in close to shore starting last Sunday in Monterey Bay, and the humpback whales followed. Photos like this one from Blue Ocean Whale Watch then began popping up
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kayaking Onto A Whale A couple in a kayak, in the waters off Puerto Madryn, Argentina, paddled up to a family of whales sunning themselves, and got them on video. This might not be so remarkable, except
SF News Sailors Helpless After Boat Crashes Into Whale What luck! Five people and a whale are all safe and uninjured in a maritime collision that could have been much, much worse. According to Rebecca Rosenblatt, a spokesperson for the San Mateo
SF News Your Morning Cry: Stranded Stinson Beach Whale Dies #PHOTO just in shows stranded fin whale that died at Stinson Beach in Marin County http://t.co/Tj8heJlUlW pic.twitter.com/CuDSupqHVV— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) August 19, 2013 Perhaps your editor's
