As well as whalers' harpoons, whales must navigate the dangers of ship strikes, entanglements in shipping nets and other ocean apparatus, disorientating man-made ocean noises, habitat destruction, resource exploitation, climate change and pollution.
A large apparatus, however, always faces the same battle – over national visions, sovereignty, money, positions.
Living quietly in retirement from the end of 1990, Jaruzelski tried hard for the rest of his life to convince the world he had never been less than a Polish patriot, and that from 1989 he dismantled the apparatus of communist rule setting Poland firmly on the path to democracy and the free market.
Chris O'Dowd has some feminine elements – he has big eyes and a full mouth, but he is also very hairy and the sheer bulk of his facial apparatus would put him out of the running in any "passing for a woman" competition.
The US spying apparatus and Silicon Valley's top tech firms are basically in the same business, collecting information on people, he said.
The Vatan-e-Emrooz newspaper, which has a conspiratorial mindset, published a front-page article in April warning that the event is aimed at orchestrating a "soft overthrow" in Iran and urged the country's intelligence apparatus to be vigilant.
As part of a long-term counterinsurgency strategy, successive British governments poured billions into Northern Ireland not just to meet the paramilitary threat through a vast security apparatus but in addition to reform and rebuild.
In reality, as 50 MPs declared when some of these revelations first surfaced, Thatcher's government and its security apparatus were themselves guilty of the mass "subversion of democratic liberties".
During a campaign stop in Philadelphia on Monday, Paul said he will "do everything possible" to reign in the government's surveillance apparatus.
The "head hunters'" quarry included true-believers that the British state security apparatus (or at least some parts of it) were happy to be rid of such as IRA Derry Brigade activist Paddy Flood, whom most republicans in the city now admit was not an informer.
(updated below [Wed.]) Since we began began publishing stories about the NSA's massive domestic spying apparatus, various NSA defenders – beginning with President Obama - have sought to assure the public that this is all done under robust judicial oversight.
