The remains of the only known whaling ship to sink in the Gulf of Mexico shine a light on the industry’s history of employing nonwhite crewmembers who could have been enslaved or imprisoned had they ...

"That first night after the ship left New Orleans ... he fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. "The next thing I remember is waking up in the water," he says. "The boat was out of sight.

“It’s atrocious that the Trump administration illegally tore away Rice’s whales’ only protections from ship strikes in their western and central Gulf of Mexico habitat,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans ...