Humpback Whales Depressed With the Heat in Keawalua on Hawaii Five-0

Summary: Are crime-solvers and criminals on Hawaii Five-0 2010's Ikiiki I Ka Lā Keawalua Feb. 1, 2019, as depressed with the heat in Keawalua as humpback whales?

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) swims in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary; Ed Lyman/NOAA Permit #14682; Feb. 22, 2012: NOAA Photo Library, Public Domain, via Flickr

Humpback whales and tourists, like locals in Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural television series episode Ikiiki I Ka Lā Keawalua Feb. 1, 2019, sometimes are depressed with the heat in Keawalua.

Director Peter Weller and writer Paul Grellong build into the ninth season's 14th episode heat as baked beaches, brandished weapons and Hawaii Five-0 task force members. The series' 207th episode claims as casualty Luka Palakiko (Hale Mawae), friend of Flippa Tupuola (Shawn Mokuahi Garrett), task force confidential informant Kamekona's (Taylor Wily) cousin. Twenty to  30 minutes from the Hawaiian homeless camp, Pu'uhonua o Waianae, by O'ahu Leeward Coast's Farrington Highway, HI-93, deposits drivers at secluded white-sanded Keawalua Beach.

Keawalua entertains the nickname Yokohama Bay beach for O'ahu Railway and Land Company line extensions around Ka'ena Point Oct. 14, 1897, by emigrants from Yokohama, Japan.

Peter T. Young's online history furnishes early 20th-century fishermen and a train station master from Japan's namesake village as further factors that facilitated the Yokohama monikker.

Keawalua, former landholding of McCandless Ranch heiress Elizabeth Loy McCandless Marks (July 25, 1905-Dec. 29, 1995), guards the five-decade-old southwest gateway to Ka'ena Point State Park. Keawalua, from Hawaiian for red bay, harbored red-brown spawning cuttlefish for ancient Hawaiians and hosts humpback whales January through March for present-day locals, researchers and visitors. High winds, rocky bottoms, steep drop-offs, strong currents, tunnel curls and wave-pommeled shorelines imperil Keawalua beach-goers and humpback whales, whose internal body temperatures glaring heat impairs.

Crime-jostled, treeless, unpoliced beaches despite lifeguards and, despite International Whaling Commission moratoria since 1986, whalers and severe, unfiltered, unshaded heat respectively jeopardize humpback whales and beach-goers.

Humpback whales, known as Megaptera novaeangliae (from Greek μέγας, mégas, "large" and πτερόν, pterón, "wing"; and Latin novae, "new" and Anglia, "England"), keep alternate-year breeding seasons.

Winter-conceived, 10- to 12-month-gestated newborns leave underwater nurseries for the first-breathed of  their 40-plus-year life cycle's air-, mucous-, oil-, vapor-spouted, pear-shaped, 6.56-foot- (2-meter-) high blow clouds. The 2,000- to 3,000-pound (907.18- to 1,360.78-kilogram), 10- to 16-foot- (3.05- to 4.88-meter-) long calf matures on fat-, mineral-, protein-rich milk for six to 12 months. Black-gray-bodied, black-gray-sided, physically and sexually mature five- to 14-year-old humpback whales net 50,000- to 90,000-pound (25- to 30-kilogram), 37.7- to 60-foot (11.49- to 18.29-meter) head-body lengths.

Bumpy-jawed, bumpily taper-headed, white-bellied, white-throated humpback whales, observed by Georg Heinrich Borowski (July 26, 1746-July 26, 1801), offer bumpy, serrate-edged, thin, white flippers one-third head-body lengths.

The Mysticeti (from Greek μύσταξ, mústax, "mustache" and κήτος, kítos, "whale") whale suborder member possesses 540 to 800 fish-, krill-, plankton-processing, fringed, thin, upper-jaw baleen plates.

Killer whales qualify as natural enemies of the chest-furrowed, throat-grooved whale member of the Cetacea (from Greek κήτος, kítos, "whale" and Latin -acea, "belonging to") order. The rorqual (from Norwegian for "furrow whale") member of baleen whales requires 70.63-cubic-foot (2-cubic-meter) air intakes within two seconds every five to 15 or 40 minutes. Bycatch, pollution, ships and whaling serve humpback whales with an International Union for Conservation of Nature vulnerability status at 150- to 160-foot (45.72- to 48.77-meter) depths.

Heated-up crime-solvers, criminals and sands trouble Keawalua beach-goers, not heat-sensitive, scent-, smell-, taste-, texture-savvy, sharp-sighted humpback whales during their low-pitched, vibrating sounds and 20-minute-long mate-seeking songs.

Crime personally touches the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force as Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) investigates the death of a friend of Flippa Tupuola (Shawn Mokuahi Garrett), cousin of entrepreneur and confidential informant Kamekona Tupuola, in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 9, episode 14, Ikiiki I Ka Lā Keawalua (Depressed With the Heat): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 9.14 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Jan. 26, 2019

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) swims in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary; Ed Lyman/NOAA Permit #14682; Feb. 22, 2012: NOAA Photo Library, Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/onms/27703859660/

Crime personally touches the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force as lieutenant commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) investigates the death of a friend of Flippa Tupuola (Shawn Mokuahi Garrett), cousin of entrepreneur and confidential informant Kamekona Tupuola, in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 9, episode 14, Ikiiki I Ka Lā Keawalua (Depressed With the Heat): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 9.14 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Jan. 26, 2019, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2019/01/hawaii-five-0-episode-914-ikliki-i-ka.html

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