High-Resolution HOPS Whale Impact sites (whalescore.jpeg) =============================================================================== Staccato on beach photo. (staccato_wellfleet.jpg) Obtained from: The Collision Course of Whales and Humans http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12639&tid=282&cid=25169 Original caption: ACCIDENT VICTIM-A 60-ton, 45-foot right whale known as Staccato-a mature female that had given birth to many calves-washed up on a beach in Wellfleet, Mass., in 1999. A necropsy revealed a broken jaw, five fractured vertebrae, damage to the left flipper, and internal bleeding-all signs of a collision with a large ship. (Photo by Vincent DeWitt, Cape Cod Times) =============================================================================== Right Whale at surface (rightwhale.06.jpg) Obtained from Right Whale Migration Update: April 28, 1999 http://www.learner.org/jnorth/spring1999/species/rwhale/Update042899.html =============================================================================== Coast Guard cutters looking for EA990 survivors (Flight_990_Search_and_Rescue.gif) Obtained from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990 Original caption: The USCG cutters Monomoy (foreground) and Spencer searching for survivors of the crash. Originally from http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/cb/jan00/990.html =============================================================================== EgyptAir990 Flight path (EA990flightpath.gif) Obtained from http://www.ntsb.gov/events/ea990/default.htm Original caption: Flight path of Egypt Air 990 from JFK to end of radar data. Data furnished to the NTSB by the Air Force 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron.