I know right! Ive lived here my whole life & always correct people who dont know how to pronounce it properly, but im shocked to hear a well-educated scientist say it wrong. I wonder how they pronounce Yachats, my favorite place in the whole world
Ok, I grew up here in the Willamette Valley, 58 years old and NEVER heard of Heceta being pronounced like HECK A TAH in my life! It feels and sounds so,,,,WRONG to not say HE-CE-TA. Agh! How does one get beyond this mispronouncement that is ingrained in me?? I love Oregon, and geology. Thank you for this great information!
Thank you! I'm a native Oregonian and grew up in North Bend on the Oregon coast. We've always pronounced it "Ha-sea-ta". "Heck-eh-ta" is grating to hear.
I never heard it called "HECK etta" until the 80s. I think it has to do with people who weren't from here coming here and mispronouncing it, and then pretending that the LOCALS mispronounced it.
I'll bet the filmmakers had a discussion, maybe a long one, about how to pronounce the name. What's the "correct" pronunciation? There's a good argument for "heh-CEE-tuh" or maybe "hay-SAY-tah", as the Basque/Spanish explorer probably said his name, but there's also a good argument for "HEK-eh-tuh", which is what the fishermen and -women who go there all the time call it (at least the ones in Newport who I've heard). They're now the "locals" for Heceta Bank, and people in charge of geographic names tend to pay a lot of attention to what local people call nearby features.
So is it some sort of mental condition that makes me see all the civilization that, at least to me, is clearly visible in the blurry eyes rendered bathymetric layers that can be found on our digital maps, the real ones, its soul soothing to see expert opinion nod towards what could be a massive missing history. Thanks for making me feel less fantastical and more on point, and super pissed that I know that zone is the home of the Off shore rigs. That's how the gulf of mexico came to appear as a sand shrimp colony like in my estuary here. Endlessly stacked boreholes like an Everest of oily doughnuts 🤦♂️
It's great to hear that the fisherman and researchers are working together to protect the area so that future generations can enjoy the bank as well.
Does anyone know how to correctly pronounce “Heceta”? This lifelong Oregonian, now, really wants to know. I’ll get to the geology later.
An entertaining video. I really appreciate how you included the various ways humans have interacted with this environment.
I caught the largest Halibut in my life off Hecata Head
Love to hear it called Heck-a-tah again, not Hecee-tah.
This is quality
thanks
I have seen the largest Halibut that I will ever see in my life come out of that fishing ground.years age.
I was there in the 90's
I know right! Ive lived here my whole life & always correct people who dont know how to pronounce it properly, but im shocked to hear a well-educated scientist say it wrong. I wonder how they pronounce Yachats, my favorite place in the whole world
"Yeah-chatts"
heckuhtuh is just south of yeah chats
Hahahahaha In the land of Orr E Gone.
Ok, I grew up here in the Willamette Valley, 58 years old and NEVER heard of Heceta being pronounced like HECK A TAH in my life!
It feels and sounds so,,,,WRONG to not say HE-CE-TA.
Agh! How does one get beyond this mispronouncement that is ingrained in me??
I love Oregon, and geology.
Thank you for this great information!
Ha-SEE -Ta is proper.
aw DAMMIT. I'll just wikipedia this....
Thank you! I'm a native Oregonian and grew up in North Bend on the Oregon coast. We've always pronounced it "Ha-sea-ta". "Heck-eh-ta" is grating to hear.
I never heard it called "HECK etta" until the 80s. I think it has to do with people who weren't from here coming here and mispronouncing it, and then pretending that the LOCALS mispronounced it.
I'll bet the filmmakers had a discussion, maybe a long one, about how to pronounce the name. What's the "correct" pronunciation? There's a good argument for "heh-CEE-tuh" or maybe "hay-SAY-tah", as the Basque/Spanish explorer probably said his name, but there's also a good argument for "HEK-eh-tuh", which is what the fishermen and -women who go there all the time call it (at least the ones in Newport who I've heard). They're now the "locals" for Heceta Bank, and people in charge of geographic names tend to pay a lot of attention to what local people call nearby features.
The largest pacific Halibut on the Oregon coast .🎉❤
So is it some sort of mental condition that makes me see all the civilization that, at least to me, is clearly visible in the blurry eyes rendered bathymetric layers that can be found on our digital maps, the real ones, its soul soothing to see expert opinion nod towards what could be a massive missing history. Thanks for making me feel less fantastical and more on point, and super pissed that I know that zone is the home of the Off shore rigs. That's how the gulf of mexico came to appear as a sand shrimp colony like in my estuary here. Endlessly stacked boreholes like an Everest of oily doughnuts 🤦♂️
I can't listen to the word Heceta mispronounced through an entire documentary.
So you'd notice the 'water level raising'? Obviously not.
Heckata I always thought it was HE-CEE-TA
a little research into pronouncing place names seems ..... lacking