Did you know one of history’s biggest whale rescues involved a 22,000-horsepower icebreaker, a Bering Strait deep-freeze, and possibly a Tchaikovsky playlist? In the winter of 1984, hunters near Russia’s Chukchi Peninsula spotted something they’d never seen before: somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 beluga whales crowded around a shrinking patch of open water in the […]