1940s whaling in the Antarctic
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2016
- WARNING this film contains some graphic scenes of whale slaughter
A film following a whaling ship from Southhampton, England, to the Antarctic. This documentary film was produced by The J.Arthur Rank Organisation Ltd.
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They found a bowhead in 2007 that had carried a harpoon in its neck for 130 years. There's more to them than we know.
What a legend
How did they figure out 130 years.
@@wallytimmins356 same way archeologists date most ancient finds but seeing as it was 130 years I should imagine from the type of harpoon. Just match the harpoon from the bow head to the era in which it was used....
I saw a video once where they caught a whale with a flint harpoon in it... just imagine how old that whale was!! And it's even more sad to think that it escaped whalers all that time ago and finally got caught by whalers all that time later!
@@jackpowell594 Thanks Jack
More whales were taken in one season of modern whaling than all of the years proceeding. It’s crazy. Check it out.
I’ll check out your mom in the bathroom next time she taking a fat dump and then I’ll put it back inside er.
I do believe you're taking out of your ass.
My Dad was on a ship and died on it was a round 1947 the ship was from England he was buried at sea l he came from Belfast NI l know the ships name began with a B
Probably Balaena. There’s a sea shanty about that ship!
My father sailed from the Tyne. He worked for Salvesons of Norway on board the Southern Harvester. Southern Adventurer. And the Balena.In later years he deplored Whaling.
Salvesen & Co. were a Scottish firm out of Leith, although the family originally came from Mandal, Norway. They operated the factory ships "Southern Venturer" and "Southern Harvester" post WWII. The "Balaena" (1946) belonged to Hector Whaling/United Whaling. Hector and United were holding companies with managers Bugge & Krogh Hansen of Tønsberg, Norway.
Then you"re the legacy of whaling... please conduct yourself in the manner of such
i would like so much to talk with your father about the whaling expeditions
To give you guys an idea on how destructive the Whaling seasons were in those days.
Not even 20 years after the invention of the Harpoon cannon and the advent of modern factory chips, species like the Humpback and the Southern Right whale were so badly affected that even in the 1920's people were going "Save the whales"
So true and such a good example of excess. As the narrator mentions we had thousands of years hunting them but technology took it to far.
@@sun77711 apparently not more than the Norwegians who have just doubled their quota for next year, a quota which they decide upon with no action taken from any government. The way they kill them is absolutely disgusting.
@@papalangham don't forget what japan is doing too
yet the same people in the video or at least descendants do
@Alek Wolf so many dogs
Interesting..... Thanks for uploading this.
lol. A government inspector was a meaningless term then, and now.
80 years from now people will be watching episodes of "Deadly Catch" on RUclips and making similar comments.
Simply not true
@@willfishing5605 We'll see .....
I hope not but by then all meat might be grown from the cell of the animal anyway
Liberals will figure this one out way before then. Need to bring back harvesting California's sealions before they eat up all the salmon and steelhead.
Reuben Johnson 80 years from then people will see "Deadly Catch" and say "80 years from now people will say the same thing about Alien hunting".
There once was a ship that put to sea
The name of the ship was the Billy of Tea
The winds blew up, her bow dipped down
Oh blow, my bully boys, blow (huh)
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
She'd not been two weeks from shore
When down on her a right whale bore
The captain called all hands and swore
He'd take that whale in tow (huh)
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
Da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Before the boat had hit the water
The whale's tail came up and caught her
All hands to the side, harpooned and fought her
When she dived down low (huh)
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
No line was cut, no whale was freed
The captain's mind was not of greed
And he belonged to the Whaleman's creed
She took that ship in tow (huh)
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
Da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
For forty days or even more
The line went slack then tight once more
All boats were lost, there were only four
But still that whale did go (huh)
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
As far as I've heard, the fight's still on
The line's not cut, and the whale's not gone
The Wellerman makes his regular call
To encourage the captain, crew and all (huh)
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We'll take our leave and go
is that Alestorm??
i have no problem using any resource on the planet to benefit mankind . it just needs to be done in a way that doesn't deplete the resource or adversely affect an ecosystem . responsible harvesting is not just a fancy idea or buzz words .
who said anything about hunting to extinction ?
i sad RESPONSIBLE HARVESTING .
apologies , i misunderstood your intent . sometimes , it's hard to tell how people mean things . and being a " trekkie " , you'd have thought i'd caught on straight away .
have a great year ! or 50 !
waht if the resource is another human?
@@rihosims . . . slippery slope
@@rihosims Plenty of people out there living now because of an organ harvested from another human. Plenty of athletes extending their careers using stem cells harvested from fetuses. My point is it's already been happening for a long time.
Margarine, soap, fertilizer. animal feed.... Petroleum products replaced most of these. Thank an oil well for ending the need for whales to make soap. The northern supply was exhausted. We are short sighted and needy creatures..Peace.
“They can’t take as many whales as they want” not because it’s insanity but because “they have to leave some for next year...”
It's the same with fish my dude
whaling didnt stop because humans changed their minds.....it stopped because crude oil became the better alternative. But for fossil fuels we'd still be sending boats out for the Whales....or we'd have run out and you wouldn't be able to virtue signal over the internet
hunting other animals isn't insanity, it's nature. Nowadays, it is irresponsible to hunt them, because their populations are in danger. We should strive to preserve species, including the human species, but understand that killing animals is part of nature.
I wonder how they took such steady pictures in those swells?
helmet cam mounted on the ship's falcon
@@dunemetal67 Is that how they got the aerial shots too?
how do they not run out of supply's?
they have huge stockpiles onboard. and on top of that whale oil and fat is good for fires for heat and lighting. the meat is very much edible. and the balleen bristles make all sorts of things. their hide can be alright id used right too
Did you not watch the video????
@@johncholmes643 I guess they didn't see the part about the resupply ship! I think a lot of people just watch enough to make a comment.
@@seadog915 what a bunch of gays
@@johncholmes643 haha
Read some of the comments below from the people that were triggered.. in the next episode we'll see seal bashing.
Aww the Canadian past time seal clubbing. It’s a very relaxing sport. 🇨🇦
@@rustyshackleford3263 It would be even more relaxing to chase a bullet between the eyes of such murderers.
@@Monsterknecht how do you chase a bullet?
Smashing good show my boy, heads will roll.
I’m just a Kentuckian never been to Sea and never touched a whale let alone see one in person. The only opinion I have of this video is that it’s very interesting. Like the situation of the alligator snapping turtle man took advantage of what the almighty had put before him to survive for many years and it led to passing laws for conservation purposes but they found that they were so slow growing that they couldn’t keep up to multiply enough to balance out for the turtle trappers to continue with a season so that led to full time protection and considered endangered. No doubt the traditions of what used to be are hard to let go but everything happens for a reason and that’s what became of whaling all around.
Bit too late for Tuna & Swordfish probably. Common sense says we should never out hunt a resource but there are more extinct species & subspecies than applied common sense.
Because mankind is greedy, fearful & aggressive & the vast majority have no inclination to ever live in harmony with our environment but dominate & subjugate it & anything slightly different.
The biggest pods of sperm whales were off Jervis bay on the NSW south coast, in the 1840's a huge white whale was reputed to be leading them.
what was everybody screaming about back then
Blacks probably
Interesting to see this colorized.
Two banned Topics at once , Great Video :) QC
My grandparents and great grandparents were whalers.
I have postcards and letters written to family members describing their voyages...
My grandfather wrote a whaling book...
Our house had tools of the trade as decoration...
I was taught how to shellfish at 4...
I'm very curious, how did your grandparents describe their voyages?
Be doesn't know. He is not serious. Lying in other words
My grandfather flew in the plane shown at 4:06 it was a new and experimental addition to the expeditions, very quickly rendered obsolete by radar/sonar (?), of course
Petroleum ⛽️ industry indirectly saved the whales from extinction.
"Thar' she blows!"
Who eats sushi??
This was educational. Thankyou.
Sad for the whales.
Them were some real men doing that job no candy asses on them boats
Or vegans
Makes me want to play dishonored
I get it.. the men who killed the Whales must have seen them as fish, fair game from the sea.. and everlasting... not! It wasn't their fault they we're taught to be what they were.
Break the matrix.
Hell....we needed it. We needed that oil, the meat, the blubber, the skin the bones. It all went to good use and society needed it. We have synthetic oil and gas and electricity etc now.....BUT it wasn't always that way. People that look down on the whaling industry REALLY take it for granted all the comforts we have these days. And all you people who think they are so high and mighty on their keyboards and smartphones phones.....you know where the materials for you laptops and Iphones and smart tablets etc comes from....exploited 3rd world miners in Africa working for pennies....YET not one of you is ready to give up their flatscreens and smartphones YET you look down on the societies that thrived off the fruits of the whaling industry.
@@androlibre9661 excellent response. The hypocrisy is real!
So a whale can weigh as much as 40 large elephants. Does anyone know the equivalent weight of London double decker buses. 🤷♂
The Ross Sea Indeed. The Antarctic Circle is not a Continent. It is the opposite of what they say.
This is how I caught my ex wife at the bar
What, save our beaches harpoon a fat chick.
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I thought she was my"hex wife" oh well...🙊🙉🙈
Was only your turn
@@mathewsmith7305 dr hextable in the house.
whales exhausted. That suggests one must cease whaling so that the whales can resume their normal state.
That’s exactly what that suggests
Whales are slowly making a come back. It is a lot easier for marine animals to make a comeback. A good example is the elephant seal that was almost hunted to extinction, only a small group survived in Mexico until they banned killing. Unfortunately the auk wasn't so lucky.
What a horrible practice in this day and age
it's an awful thing but it is part of our history
only couple of nations history - not all
@@lubiehotstopy couple? Canada USA NORWAY RUSSIA SOUTH AFRICA JAPAN UK. off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many more.
@@percussion44 iceland and Norway.
It made America.
@@fontaineking5158 Whaling, cod fishery, cotton, tobacco, slavery, and selling opium to the Chinese which is how an awful lot of "old money" families like the Delanos made their fortunes. Then there was oil; the US was the world's "Saudi Arabia" for the first 100 years or so of that. The US also made stuff like cloth, shoes, all kinds of odds and ends and those odds and ends add up. The US is a big country and there's no one thing that "made" us.
Is whale tasty?
Yes, very!
man truly is the most vicious of the creations.
For the love of money humans would extract every resource to it’s final depletion, unless good people regulate such acts, corporations are the root of evi
Unfortunately IF it wasn't for this particular history . We would not have the environmental attitudes of today. We call it environmental evolution sorry if it offends.
Tffft!! The empty rhetoric of this magical “search for new methods to make the killing of such giants ‘more humane”. And still they over whaled the Arctic Ocean.
We're whalers on the moon. We carry a harpoon.
I feel like if I killed a whale I'd be killing an intelligent fellow earthling
Thank God for international agreement s
Alex Harvey composed a brilliant song 'Whalers' (Thar She Blows) the saxophone screeching & screaming represents the death throws of a harpooned whale. Check it out, its inspired.
This should be turned into a real life tragedy/comedy,
The star is a young whale hunter and coal is destroying his career along with whale depletion.
Good stuff, I tell ya...Arr arr arr...
Did you see the side of the F*cking harpoon head ? It was massive,Jesus.Poor whales.
Fuck the whales
The grammar and spelling mistakes on the narrative on ths film are dreadful.
You wonder why people hate whaling... this is why
Lots of countries hunted whales and now only 4 which are Norway, Japan, Iceland and the faroe islands
And AMERICA. Don't forget Inuits that are still allowed to hunt Whales.
Thank goodness the whales are protected to some extent anyway....,maybe more pressure on whaling nations like Japan needs to happen ....these peaceful creatures need our help..,,,& the start of this video did say the whales in the Northern Hemisphere were hunted close to extinction didn’t that tell them something? But greed is the driving force of man and always has been ....these factory ships will fish out the oceans, then what do we do ? Give the oceans a chance to recover for goodness sake....
Sorry, cant watch this, breaks my heart because these people almost made these gentle giants extinct
Japan still does this.
The PBY Catalina catapult may be the coolest thing I've ever seen
It’s actually a supermarine Walrus
@@scipioafricanus4328 Indeed. The Catalina is much cooler.
So they knew in the 40's that they had hunted whales to a point they could only find them in Antarctica, yet they kept killing them... Greatest Generation My Ass
Spare us your righteous indignation...
@@Hjerte_Verke Greatest generation my ass
@@willfishing5605 Lol!
Yeah, whaling was definitely one of the low points, but if your overall opinion of them off is based off of that one low point, you're providing some fairly good ammunition to be used against your generation as the most close minded (and whiniest). 😆
@@karlepaul6632 You are certainly right about mine, however, mine would have avoided WWII all together... so there's that
oil and gas fields in abundance saved the whales
Make Whaling Great Again
Every bar has a few, wait till closing time
Brutal, and stupid! Pet food, fertilizer, are you kidding me?!
Read-up on American bison history. They were first slaughtered for fun and their skin alone - left by the millions to rot. Later an industry emerged for fertilizer so people went out and collected the billions of bones across the land.
They are to be applauded for using the entire carcass instead flensing off the blubber skin and leaving the rest to rot. Get a grip, man
@@Hjerte_Verke I stand corrected !
Now that's fishing!
Pretty soon we gonna be eating them again
Turning whales into pet food lol. If dogs can grow to the size of whales and whales can be as small as a chihuahua, people would feed dogs to their pet whales.
How could people just kill such a majestic creature???
With sharp objects
Haha, used a Dead Whale as a fender,.... we should have never stopped harvesting whales, there are just so many uses for them.
Maybe also as a brain donor for some people...
Save the whales
Oh, funky momma, save the whales
Yeah, save the whales
You just got to save the whales but believe me when I tell you,
Kill the seals
Yeah, kill the seals
Cause the seals eat all the fish
And if you don’t like it when I say kill the seals then,
Save your breath
oh, save your breath
This film should be titled "Enviromental crimes against the planet"
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Soy boy
@@jackvella6392
Keyboard warrior
Your very existence on this earth could be called “crimes against the planet”. What are you gonna do about it, mate?
@@Hjerte_Verke
Well im gonna assume you're a MORON and just continue living my life. What ya gonna do about that MATE 😘
This makes me hungry for Whale Sushi
Norwegians; the greatest whalers in the world.
Even the Nantucket whalers learned their trade from Norway.
I doubt this - Nantucket was the lead in the early 1800’s while the rest of world began expanding the industrialization for which Nantucket did not partake.
Gentleman let’s not fight about who’s better at killing whales.
We all love to kill the whale.
So anthropocentric and Eurocentric. The earth will die before we will
There is still whaling taking place today, and virtually all of it is by non-whites.
A noble trade. Well done to these men in the face of adversity while harvesting the natural resources to keep society moving forward.
Ah those were the days! Tasted whale in Norway once. Was delicious!
They eat whale in Japan and if I get over there again, I'm going to try some.
GOD will not forgive us humans for this and other destruction's, we will pay the ultimate price one day. A that day will be good. TH
Yup our kind God will stomp on us like bugs!
A lot of people before being murdered,prayed too God,but god didn't help them. So God is an asshole or he doesn't exist
God gave man dominion over the earth and to use all animals for food, provisions and his own use. It’s no sin. God will judge man’s inhumanity to man though, make no mistake about it. Repent before it’s too late. ☦️
@@Hjerte_Verke Amen
Hjerte Verke God loves all His creations and will not forgive us for destroying them. There is no justification for killing whales.
Crazy part is this whale would still be alive had they not killed it
Need to outlaw all whaling
@@patrickoshnock6925 sharks don't whale, jeez,
Except Indigenous tradition, it's part of culture and not wasteful
Theyre like cats,birds and deer.
...except more useful.
Don't know about cats, but the other are tasty.
Is it too late for conservation and preservation from the way of life of our past species and the poaching and science of our species today? This isn't our planet, and we will all one day return to dust, that doesn't mean we need to expedite the fate of other co-inhabitants of the planet. Makes my heart sad. We are a terrible, destructive, cruel, selfish species. I hope the Creator, can forgive us of our barbarism.
The Creator gave man dominion over all the earth and to use animals for his own use. It is no sin. Man’s inhumanity to man will be judged however... Is your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life? ☦️
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@@j.kapiris bruh you think this is funny? YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?!
Damn And i speared a fish the other day and thought it was something 🤷🏻♂️ now I want a harpoon cannon
Has to be one of the cruelest , pointless and most barbaric acts inflicted on one of the most beautiful and intelligent animals on the planet by humans. It's with huge sadness that countries like Japan, Norway and Iceland still commercially Whale and hide behide "Research" & sustainability. The way these animals are hunted is nothing but torture.Trade restrictions should be put on these countries until they 100% stop.
oooooh I don't know - I think humans figured a more cruel, even MORE pointless/barbaric acts inflicted yada yada...
How about harvesting elephant tusks? Shooting the ones with tusks, sometimes others trying to defend the fallen & leaving the baby to slowly starve next to their mom.
Then there is killing other humans because of different religion, skin color or they looked at your girl...
Humans will always figure out worse.
Go back to your salad🥗, lumpy pants pisser.
Savages.
Savage!
RIP Sven Føyn
You will never find a better conservationist than a farmer, forester, fisherman, whaler nor sealer.
Fresh whale beef tastes great. I like whale stew and whale steaks on the bbq. It goes well with beer and salad.
Save The Whale.....for me !!! Yummy, meaty, juicy, tasty whale beef.
Long live Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Denmark and Japan.
wanker
2:10 in this video blows your claim out of the water doesn't it.
You're not even good at trolling.
"Whale Beef" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So you're cross breeding whale & cow now huh?
John Chase a grown male whale is called a bull, a grown female a cow, and their young a calf. I guess that’s where they get the term ‘whale beef’.
Absolutely barbaric... Shameful period of English history.
Pffft, the barbarism continues to this day in many many other forms. This period right now is a shameful era...
None worse than the english who created the first concentration camps in 1901 south africa
@@brucebanner9911. None worse than the Dutchmen of Southern Africa, who created a system that considered black Africans as sub-humans and discriminated against them at every opportunity. But ‘the Boer War’………….
Ask how many men have died performing this job before you lament the whales death
Not enough.
I hate whales
Whale margarine is my favorite yo. Nothing like wearing my newest outfit made from the various hides that are taken super smooth they are! Brush my hair with whale tooth combs and of course I got my ivory tooth necklaces. But for real ambergris and whale margarine is love and you poors just wouldn’t understand.
When I was a kid we had a few whale teeth, one with a nice picture of a sailing ship on it and a few plain ones. And ivory carved into flower shapes was very much in fashion. You could buy ivory jewelry all over the place. Most of it was elephant ivory of course. And I'm not ancient, I'm talking about the 1970s. The whale oil margarine is hilarious though.
Whaling needs to be resumed
Minke whales are delicious!
Bring back commercial whaling what purpose but they have they not sharks they don’t keep smaller predators in check they eat small fish an crill All they go for is city liberals that have never seen a shark or whale to try to act like they care about something to there liberal,city dwelling,scum that would walk by a homeless vet with his hand out to put money in a can for a fuck8ng whale .you people make me sick 😋 have a nice day .
Eating small fish and krill is an important role in the ecosystem. I don’t necessarily have a problem with commercial whaling, as long as it’s sustainable
@@conorlarkin7135 The problem is ENTIRELY because of the lack of sustainability. If the whale was plentiful, like the rabbit, then whaling would be a great boon to mankind.
As a vet myself your hatred is killing you. There is help out there. Also work on your vocabulary, punctuation etc. Did you go to school?
@@mikeravenelle7073 reads like a drunk wrote it.
@@otroflores91 Anotherflores91 Hey, quit insulting drunks you LOL! Happy new year!
I still feel a great sadness when I see these films. I pray that whaling never returns. We have so much to learn from all the creatures on this planet, wiping them out is a total act of violence and contempt on humankind’s part.
Fortunately in these modern times the southern oceans are patrolled by heroic sea shepard sailors to confront this now unnecessary cruel slaughter.