However, an update on the death of Chunk, a well-known 10-year-old humpback whale who died off the coast of Maine, reminds us of what happens when a whale’s oxygen is cut off. After Chunk was ...

At around 3 p.m., a massive humpback surfaced within inches of Adrian ... the whale wasn’t too interested in eating a human and a large chunk of plastic, so it spat both Adrian and the kayak ...