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Tom Rose covered the 1988 whale rescue depicted in the film as a reporter and producer for Japanese TV.

Following the events, he spent the next several months in Alaska interviewing every stakeholder involved in both the rescue and the media coverage of the whales – the oil company executives, environmental activists, Inupiat people, small business people, international media and the U.S military.

The events inspired his critically acclaimed novel, Freeing the Whales which inspired Big Miracle.

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Why I Wrote The Big Miracle

(2) Comments | Posted 8 June 2012 | (00:00)

It was October 1988. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the heavily favoured Oakland Athletics in a terrific World Series. Movie goers packed theatres to watch Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. That era's creed of pop psychology was put to music Bobby McFerrin's hit song Don't Worry, Be...

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