Comments on: Rare whale sightings in Maryland

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:03:42 +0000

NASA has announced the winners of the 2010 NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award. The contest encouraged students to produce short, creative videos about their favorite technology from NASA’s Spinoff 2009 Publication. NASA collaborated with Hasbro using the correlation between the popular TRANSFORMERS brand, featuring its leader OPTIMUS PRIME, and spinoffs from NASA technologies created for aeronautics and space missions used here on Earth. The goal was to help students understand how NASA technology ‘transforms’ into things used daily. The winner for sixth through eighth grades was based on the 2009 Spinoff story originating from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “Star-Mapping Tools Enable Tracking of Endangered Animals.” It is about how a star-mapping algorithm used on the Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists track endangered animals like polar bears and whale sharks. Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiWwIj7ii3w

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:32:10 +0000

We were down at Ocean City from June 12-19 at High Point North Condo at 114th St and just now, after reading these posts, realize what a special,special time that was to be in OC. We saw the whale(s) 3-4 times that week and saw the porpoises/dolphins 3-4 times EACH day. We have been visiting OC for many, many years and had never seen anything like that.
In previous visits, if you saw the porpoises/dolphins once a week, that was great. And of course, we never,never saw whales! And after reading the intro part of this email it all makes sense. Each time I saw the whale, there was a large dark area around it. I now realize that was the school of fish mentioned here. And that explains why we saw the porpoises/dolphins so many time that week also. They were feeding off that school of fish also.
I really thought this was all related to the oil spill in the golf and chasing the whales/dolphins up north to our area. I still think that is a factor but no question, the school of fish was the main draw for the whales and dolphins!

By: Vernon C. Odle

Vernon C. Odle — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:36:46 +0000

My Wife & I were also on the beach on June 18th and got many pics of the Whale feeding off of 110th ST. @ 1130 am and then showed back up at 3:oo to feed again. It was almost like he knew we were there and put on a fabulos show for all. The doughins swam right next to the whale and were feeding off the same school of fish ,which I also have pics of. There was also a skate( not sure of spelling) which swam close to shore all day long for some odd reason.

By: shelly

shelly — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:06:13 +0000

I was there June 12th and saw them off of 23rd street. It was awesome to see especially for my 9 yr old!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:16:01 +0000

I was so there on this day.. around 6 pm or so on 36th street.. I got lots of pics.. and of the whole week I stayed there, I would say this was the best part about it!!

By: kelly

kelly — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:53:57 +0000

We were vacationing on 36th street from June 12-19 and I was able to catch the whale on video! We had two sightings of a whale, but only caught it the second time. What a sight!!

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:21:58 +0000

I was there when this happened! I wasn’t on the beach at the time, but a couple of my friends were, and they got to see it and take pictures!

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:21:51 +0000

we were visiting Ocean City and indeed saw a whale passing by close to shore, 139th street beach area, on June 23rd. What a sight to see!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:50:20 +0000

Awesome – I hope I get to see them in Rehoboth!

By: wendy a houseknecht

wendy a houseknecht — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:11:23 +0000

I was down in ocean city in March of this year and there was a dead whale on the beach. I would like to know what they did with it.