Big Miracle (50 page)

Napoli, Mendes

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

National Guard, Alaskan

alternative options

hoverbarge and

ice bullet

screw tractor

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)

National Marine Mammal Laboratory (Seattle)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Ocean Service

National Weather Service

Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL)

Nazis

NBC

NBC Nightly News

Negroponte, John

Network Nine (Australia)

Network Ten (Australia)

news cycle

New York Times

Nightline

NOAA-11 (weather satellite)

Nollman, Jim

NordSea

Northern Pole 31 floating research station

North Slope Borough (NSB)

financial health of

Search and Rescue Department

television studio.
See also
Caudle, Oran

water rationing

Wildlife Management Office

North Slope Mayor's Conference

Northwest Passage

Norway, whaling industry in

NTV

Nuiqsut (Alaska)

N.Y. News Corp.

Obama, Barack

Occidental Petroleum Company

O'Connor, Frank

Odom, Ben

Office of Cabinet Affairs (OCA)

offshore drilling

oil

in Barrow, Alaska

environmentalists and

Eskimos and

offshore drilling

Oliver, Don

Omark Industries

Operation Breakout

cost of

final day

freeing of whales

Operation Breakthrough

outsiders

Palsson, Thorsteinn

parkee

Patsevich, Alexander

Pauley, Jane

PBS

People
magazine

Pepe's North of the Border (Barrow)

permafrost

Petersen, Sigmund

phosphorus burning

Plowden, Campbell

Point Barrow

described

first reports of straggler whales

journalists' final trip to

naming of Barrow, Alaska

route to stranded whales

whale hunting off

polar bears (Nanook)

Polar ice pack

Polar Sea
(icebreaker)

Polar Star
(icebreaker)

political cartoons

pollution

portable water jet pumps

Post, Wiley

Pottinger, Todd

Poutu (middle whale)

press.
See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications

pressure ridges

Prince William Sound

earthquake (1964)

oil spill (1989)

Prudhoe Bay

Quarles, Gary

radar

radio transmitters

Ramseur, David

Raspberry, William

Rather, Dan

Reagan, Ronald

reporters.
See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications

Reshetov, Sergei

Richardson, Michael

Richmond Times Dispatch

Rockefeller, John

Rogers, Ed

Rogers, Will

Rolligon (truck)

Rural Alaska Television Network (RATNET)

Russia, acquisition of Alaska from.
See also
Soviet Union

Rutledge, Glenn

Sam & Lee's Chinese restaurant (Barrow)

Sargent, Bob

Sasso, John

satellite transmission

Schaeffer, John

Scott, Willard

screw tractor

Scully, Tucker

seal oil

seasonal affective disorder

Sea World (San Diego)

seismic technologies

Shell Oil

Shepard, Gary

Shim, Steve

shore ice

Shultz, George P.

Siku (largest whale)

Skluzacek, Rick

sled dogs

Smith, Adam

solar power

sound-bites

Soviet Union

collapse of

Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Greenpeace International and

icebreakers

Iceland crisis and

rumors of involvement

whaling industry

sperm whales

spouse sharing

Standard Oil

Standard Oil Trust

State Department, U.S.

state taxes

Stevens, Ted

Stocking, Brad

subsistence whaling

Sumii, Takao

Swaggart, Jimmy

Tate, Fran

television networks.
See specific networks

Tengelmann

3M

toilets, outdoor

Tonight Show, The

Top of the World Hotel (Barrow)

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)

Trans-Alaska Pipeline

tundra

Turnagain Arm

umiaks (sealskin boats)

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Utqiagviq.
See also
Barrow (Alaska)

Valdez (Alaska)

VECO, Inc.

Exxon Valdez
oil spill and

hoverbarge operation

ice bullet

screw tractor

Verity, William

Viking space probe

vitamin D

Vladimir Arseniev
(icebreaker)

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Wasserman, Dan

wealth effect

Weather Service, U.S.

Webster, Noah

West Germany, boycott of Iceland fish

Weston, Russ

whale hunting

dangers of

modern equipment for

quotas

sharing whale wealth

subsistence whaling

whale conservation versus

whale oil

whales.
See also
bowhead whales; California gray whales;
specific whales and specific types of whales

airlifting

in animal mythology

Beluga

blue

characteristics

drowning

humpback

Inupiat and

killer

meat

migration

parasites

products

slaughtering

sperm

tagging

tranquilizing

whale strandings

whale watching

White House Communication Agency

White House Signal Corps

whiteouts

Wilhelm, Maria

wind power

Withrow, Dave

World News This Evening

World News This Morning

World Society for the Protection of Animals

World War II

World Whale Federation

Yamasaki, Taro

Yukon River basin

 

 

TOM ROSE covered the 1988 whale rescue as a reporter and producer for Japanese TV. He spent the next several months in Alaska interviewing every major player involved in both the rescue and the media coverage of it. Today, Rose, the former publisher and CEO of
The Jerusalem Post,
cohosts the
Bauer & Rose
show on Sirius/XM satellite radio. He writes and comments regularly on American and Middle East politics. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

BIG MIRACLE.
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