PHOTO: The Real “Big Miracle”

Friday, 03 February 2012 | by Pat's Picks

A great photo of a grey whale being rescued back in 1988, the inspiration for the movie “Big Miracle,” makes the front page of the Anchorage Daily News. It was a weird rescue crew, says writer Richard Mauer: “Greenpeace, oil giant Arco, Ted Stevens, the Soviets, the U.S. military, a chainsaw distributor, a guitar-playing whale-song singer, a couple of Minnesota ice fishermen…brigade of Inupiat whalers.” And Mauer should know—he was there too.

SOURCE: Anchorage Daily News