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People have monitored those temperatures since the 1870s, when whalers threw buckets into the sea to take rudimentary measurements.
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Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
These waters are the only ones in Australia where divers can spot inquisitive Galápagos whaler sharks.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
But the show about the lengths four whalers go to survive a New England shipwreck has found new life – in New England.
—Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
Along the waterfront, weatherboard cottages lean into stories of whalers and missionaries—their gardens bursting with hibiscus and flax.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
These waters are the only ones in Australia where divers can spot inquisitive Galápagos whaler sharks.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
But the show about the lengths four whalers go to survive a New England shipwreck has found new life – in New England.
—Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
Along the waterfront, weatherboard cottages lean into stories of whalers and missionaries—their gardens bursting with hibiscus and flax.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Whaler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whaler. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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whaler
noun
whal·er
ˈhwā-lər 
ˈwā-
: a person or ship that hunts for whales
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