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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tickets are still available for the June 23 All
Day Ecological Whale Watch Adventure with the </span>
<place>
<placename><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Provincetown</span></placename>
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span>
<placetype><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Center</span></placetype>
</place>
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> for Coastal Studies aboard the
Portuguese Princess Excursions.
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The trip departs </span><city>
<place><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Provincetown Saturday, June
23</span></place>
</city><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> at </span><time hour="8"
minute="0"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">8 AM</span></time><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and returns at 4 PM. Tickets are
$85/person.</span></font></p>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">PCCS's highly
experienced Marine Educators, Research Assistants, and
Scientists will explain the ecological significance of these
different habitat areas and offer training into collecting
sightings, behavioral, environmental and atmospheric
data.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">This trip will take
you to explore offshore habitat areas not accessible during
3-4 hour trips which are frequented by birds, endangered
large whales, sharks, seals and many more species of
interest., including possible visits to:
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">„h<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Great South Channel
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">„h<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jefferies Ledge
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">„h<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Platts Bank
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">„h<span
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size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">„h<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nearshore and offshore
habitats east of </span>
<place><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cape Cod</span></place>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">„h<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the Gerry E.
Studds-Stellwagen Bank
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">PCCS’s
humpback whale experts will provide individual identification
and history of humpback whales seen, training passengers on
photo-identification and whale matching. PCCS curates
the catalog for humpback whales throughout the Gulf of Maine,
with over 2000 individuals identified and cataloged. To
date, over 150 individual humpback whales have been seen this
season in the Gulf of Maine feeding and nursery area,
including 23 mom/baby (cow/calf) pairs.</font></span></p>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">Additionally,
plankton nets will be deployed and samples will be viewed
using microscopes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">RECENT SIGHTINGS:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">On Thursday, June 8,
PCCS Research Vessel Shearwater with the humpback research
team spent the day offshore near the BC buoy in the Great
South Channel in the company of 60+ endangered humpback
whales, including 9 mother and calf pairs, half a dozen
finback whales, and minke whales. Groups of 20+ humpback
whales were bubble net feeding in coordination. Hundreds
of birds were also observed, including northern fulmars,
immature northern gannets, shearwaters, and petrels.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font
size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Additionally, large
numbers of whales have been seen regularly on the southern
edge of Stellwagen Bank, including endangered humpback and
finback whales, minke whales, shearwaters, northern gannets,
and </span><city>
<place><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wilson</span></place>
</city><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">’s storm
petrels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> On
Sunday, June 10, over 2 dozen humpback (including 3
cow/calf pairs), finback, and minke whales were seen.
Behaviors included bubble cloud and kick feeding and
breaching.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">Space is
limited. For reservations, please
contact: <br />Portuguese Princess Excursions at
1-800-442-3188 or </font><a
href="http://www.provincetownwhalewatch.com/"
target="_blank"><font
size="3">www.provincetownwhalewatch.com</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="3">For more
information, please contact: Joanne M. Jarzobski,
</font><a href="mailto:whalewatch@coastalstudies.org"><font
size="3">whalewatch@coastalstudies.org</font></a><font
size="3"> or call at 508-487-3623 ext. 107.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:
Arial"><font size="3">The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies one of
the founders of whale watching on the east coast of the United States, has
spent over 30 years conducting whale research and education programs in
the waters surrounding Cape Cod, guiding over 25,000 whale watch trips
since 1976 and educating nearly 2 million passengers about the endangered
whales, birds and other marine animals that depend on the Stellwagen Bank,
Cape Cod Bay and Gulf of Maine ecosystems for their survival.
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<br /><br />********************************* <br />Joanne M. Jarzobski
<br />Marine Education Director <br />Provincetown Center for Coastal
Studies <br />5 Holway Avenue <br />Provincetown, MA 02657 <br
/>509/487-3623 x107 <br />whalewatch@coastalstudies.org