Between 1848 and 1892, American whaleships passed through the strait in the spring and summer as they made their way from the right whale grounds in the Sea of Japan to the Sea of Okhotsk to hunt right and bowhead whales.[4] The ship David Paddack (352 tonnes (776,000 lb)), Captain Swain, of Nantucket, was bound home with a full cargo when she wrecked in the strait in 1848.[5][6]