MV DoÃ±a Paz. Called the greatest peace time maritime disaster in history, in 1987 the sinking of the MV DoÃ±a Paz led to 4,341 deaths with only 24 survivors. The ferry was en route to the capital of the Philippines when it collided with an oil tanker leaving both ships and the surrounding ocean to light up in flames.
One year, to their amazement, the carcass contained a jade harpoonâ the kind of harpoon that had not been used in the past hundred years. at least 100 years old. Sure enough, it turned out that the blue whales can live up to 110 years. By the way, this is called the footprint of the whale.
Females in captivity have been found to conceive as old as 20 years. Beluga whales have a life expectancy of 25-30 years The beluga inhabits a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters ranging from 50Â° N to 80Â° N, particularly along the coasts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.ompare how deep Belugas go to ocean zone depths. http://www.mysticaquarium.org/index.cgi/... The record depth for beluga whales is 1100 m (3500 ft) although it is not believed that these are feeding dives, but rather ways to find routes through very heavy ice.