Plate 1. The whaleship Charles W. Morgan sailing on Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary in 2014 beside a humpback whale.

Plate 2. One of the whaleboats of the Charles W. Morgan beside two humpback whales on Stellwagen Bank (2014).

Plate 3. A “grand armada” of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of whales, photographed in the Indian Ocean by Tony Wu (2014). These are mostly females, calves, and juveniles, but there were a couple large males in the pod, too. Note the sloughing of skin and the defecation at the upper right.

Plate 4. North Atlantic right whale skim feeding just beneath the surface.

Plate 5. A white sperm whale calf photographed in 1995 by Flip Nicklin, who believes the calf was a female.

Plate 6. Almost certainly the same whale as in plate 5, now grown, photographed off the Azores in 2016.

Plate 7. Historic whaling under sail from 1780 to 1920, with data from logbooks representing about ten percent of American whaling voyages during this time as published in Smith, Reeves, Josephson, and Lund (2012).

Plate 8. Image of defaunation and environmental impact on terrestrial versus marine ecosystems as published in McCauley, et al. (2015). Human impact on ocean systems has been slower, but with increased technological advances and global warming (middle bar, IPCC data) we will likely, rapidly, increase our impact, both in the number of marine extinctions and in heavily altered ecosystems.

Plate 9. A freshly dead giant squid that washed up on the southern coastline of Wellington, NZ, in 2018.

Plate 10. A great white shark tears into the fluke of a Bryde’s whale carcass off South Africa.

Plate 11. The enormous Porites coral “Big Momma,” with a circumference of about 135 feet (2014). The biologists of the National Marine Sanctuary of America Samoa estimate this “colossal orb,” as Ishmael would call it, at more than five hundred years old.

Plate 12. Magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) with deflated red gular pouch.