For twelve years, between 1975 and 1987, a juvenile humpback—designated by researchers as #0091—was observed migrating between the Azores and the Norwegian Sea. It was known for an unusual, almost mathematical scar pattern on its left fluke: three parallel slashes, then a gap, then two more. Like a barcode. Scientists called it “Trident.”
“Serial Wale” entered local parlance after a pub argument in St. John’s. A fisherman swore the whale wasn’t hunting for food. It was hunting for repetition —recreating a trauma only it understood. Old Serial Wale
The final entry in the Wale Log is dated October 31, 1987. A ghost story in more ways than one. For twelve years, between 1975 and 1987, a