Among whale-watchers, the term flying pickle is used to refer to a newborn baby humpback whale breaching the surface. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Flying Pickles Roam the Seas” *music* Grant, do you know what a flying pickle is...
bubble-net n.— «A light wind blew in from the ocean, and the skipper had stopped his boat to watch three 30-ton humpback whales lunging from the waves or circling to make so-called bubble-nets in which they like to catch clouds of small fish.» —“In...
snodding n.— «The juvenile whale spent more than four hours with its head and tail tangled in a shark net about 500m off Currumbin beach before rescuers used a technique called snodding to cut it free.…Snodding, he said, involved rescuers bunching...
