DATE: April 09, 2009 23:31:40 EST
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Date: April 9, 2009 
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Coast Guard establishes safety zone around humpback whale *VIDEO/PHOTO RELEASE*

NEW YORK - Interview with Robert DiGiovanni, Foundation Director and senior biologist with the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Janette Rozmus of Coast Guard Station New York regarding a multi-agency response to a whale sighting south of the Verrazano Bridge, N.Y., April 9, 2009. (U.S. Coast Guard video/PA3 Barbara L. Patton)

NEW YORK - Interview with Robert DiGiovanni, Foundation Director and senior biologist with the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Janette Rozmus of Coast Guard Station New York regarding a multi-agency response to a whale sighting south of the Verrazano Bridge, N.Y., April 9, 2009.

Click the below photos for high-resolution imagery of the response to the humpback whale:

NEW YORK - Julika Wocial, a representative from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, scans the horizon with binoculars in search of a humback whale sighted south of the Verrazano Bridge in Ambrose Channel, N.Y., April 9, 2009. NEW YORK - Julika Wocial, a representative from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, scans the horizon with binoculars in search of a humback whale sighted south of the Verrazano Bridge in Ambrose Channel, N.Y., April 9, 2009.

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NEW YORK - Julika Wocial, a representative from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, scans the horizon with binoculars in search of a humpback whale sighted south of the Verrazano Bridge in Ambrose Channel, N.Y., April 9, 2009.

Boat crews from Coast Guard Station New York, the Department of Conservation and the New York City Police Department maintained a vigilant watch to prevent commercial and recreational traffic from injuring the animal.

For the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's press release on the whale, click here.

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