August 16 The recent resurgence of COVID-19 in Provincetown is heavily impacting summer happenings and events. As a result, the Dolphin Fleet of Provincetown has been obliged to reschedule the August 21 Sunset Whale Watch fundraiser. The trip will now take place on...
June 12, 2021 Yesterday the Center for Coastal Studies received word that a local lobster diver, Michael Packard, had been injured in an interaction with a humpback whale in the waters off Provincetown. The Center’s Humpback Whale Studies Program is home to a...
June 10, 2021 Yesterday the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale in the waters east of Boston. The whale was identified by the CCS Humpback Whale Studies team as a mature female named...
August 16, 2019 The Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale yesterday afternoon off Chatham, MA. A charter vessel discovered the whale early yesterday morning; they reported it to the CCS...
June 26, 2019 On Monday, June 24 the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team at the Center for Coastal Studies responded to an entangled humpback whale east of Chatham, MA. It was a challenging rescue operation for the team: The young whale was free-swimming in a...
