{"id":6227,"date":"2024-01-15T18:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.espacotalassa.com\/?page_id=6227"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:02:49","slug":"espaco-talassa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/espaco-talassa\/","title":{"rendered":"Espa\u00e7o Talassa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Once Upon a Time\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last sperm whale was hunted in Lajes do Pico in 1987. Two years later, in 1989, Espa\u00e7o Talassa was born from an unlikely meeting: Jo\u00e3o Vigia, a former whaler from Lajes, Serge Viallelle, a French sailor passing through the Azores (who ended up staying), and Alexandra Teles, an architect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same eyes that used to look for whales to hunt them started looking for them to show them. In 1991 came &#8220;Dolphins, Whales and Men&#8221;, the first Azorean project for marine protection and public education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1995 the BOCA, Base of Observation of Cetaceans of the Azores, opened next to the Whalers&#8217; Museum. Library, videos, sightings statistics, research projects, and free entry. Visitors, researchers and locals still drop by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A whaler, a sailor and an architect. It sounds like the start of a joke, but it became a story of more than thirty years: the story of a sea that stopped being used to hunt whales and started being used to get to know them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Upon a Time\u2026 The last sperm whale was hunted in Lajes do Pico in 1987. Two years later, in 1989, Espa\u00e7o Talassa was born from an unlikely meeting: Jo\u00e3o Vigia, a former whaler from Lajes, Serge Viallelle, a French sailor passing through the Azores (who ended up staying), and Alexandra Teles, an architect. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7944,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_title":"About Espa\u00e7o Talassa | Whale Watching on Pico since 1989","rank_math_description":"Discover sustainable whale watching tours on Pico Island since 1989. Experience sperm whales, dolphins, and ocean adventures year-round with Espa\u00e7o","rank_math_facebook_title":"Whale Watching & Marine Conservation | Espa\u00e7o Talassa","rank_math_facebook_description":"Join us for unforgettable whale watching expeditions off Pico Island. See sperm whales, dolphins, and the majesty of the Atlantic Ocean. Book your","rank_math_facebook_image":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JQA1250copy-1230x823-1.jpg","rank_math_twitter_title":"Whale Watching & Marine Conservation | Espa\u00e7o Talassa","rank_math_twitter_description":"Join us for unforgettable whale watching expeditions off Pico Island. See sperm whales, dolphins, and the majesty of the Atlantic Ocean. Book your","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_facebook_image_id":7944,"rank_math_robots":[],"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-6227","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45362,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6227\/revisions\/45362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}