Amos,

I'm in agreement with most of your statement, but you have one factual error:

"the Essex out of Nantucket, the first haling ship on record to be directly attacked by a pissed off whale. "

It was the first one *** THAT WAS KNOWN *** to have been sunk by a whale- the others just disappeared without witnesses. One can be sure many of the missing whalers ( in small ships) were eliminated by angry whales- that were smart enough to make sure there were NO witnesses.

No case of a porpose EVER killing a human has been found- which proves ONLY that they are too intelligent to get caught.