[Cowboy Bob]

No one died in the incident but it is cited as one of the major causes of the demise of commercial whaling in the United States...

I guess crude oil had nothing to do with it?

[Irishguy]

exactly this.

whalers dying is not the reason it stopped...it was the creation of the oil barrel as an easy way of transporting something cheaper and more abundant.

so you know what saved the whales...oil did....

[SunkenCiv]

:’)