America's Last Whaling Station (TV)

Recommended QUEST Resources

• QUEST Science Blog - discuss America's Last Whaling Station

  Discuss the America's Last Whaling Station radio report and TV story on the KQED QUEST Science Blog.

• America's Last Whaling Station - KQED QUEST flickr photo set

  View and discuss photos from the America's Last Whaling Station story.

• Underwater Flight with Graham Hawkes

  It's not James Bond-- it's Graham Hawkes, record holder for the deepest underwater solo dive and inventor of Deep Flight, a winged submersible that may revolutionize underwater travel. QUEST TV Reports.

• America's Last Whaling Station (radio)

  The Bay Area was home to the last whale hunting fleet in the United States - only a generation ago. Quest investigates how Richmond, California was part of a historic moment, and what remains today.

Additional Links

• Earth Island Institute

  Earth Island Institute fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment.

• Center for Whale Research

  The Center for Whale Research was founded to promote and conduct benign studies on populations of whales, dolphins and porpoises, and to report factual results of these studies to governments, organizations and individuals for the purpose of conserving these remarkable marine animals for future generations.

• New Bedford Whaling Museum

  The largest museum in America devoted to the history of the American whaling industry and its greatest port.

• American Cetacean Society

  The American Cetacean Society protects whales, dolphins, porpoises, and their habitats through public education, research grants, and conservation actions.

• Study casts doubt on whales' comeback - SJ Mercury News

  By Paul Rogers, 09/11/2007. The return of the Pacific gray whale, long hailed as one of the modern conservation movement's great triumphs, may not be as successful as scientists had previously thought.