What is it with this guy? I have watched a couple of the whale war episodes and can't beleive this guy skippers a large vessel. He always looks like he just got done sucking down a quart of wiskey when he comes onto the bridge.
Posted on 07/27/2009 6:00:27 AM PDT by Abathar
VANCOUVER -- It wasn't a pretty sight, but whale watchers on a cruise ship in Canada got more than they bargained for when they arrived at the port of Vancouver -- a dead whale stuck to the bow.
The vessel apparently struck the 70-ton fin whale in the ocean and unknowingly carried it wedged to the bow from Alaskan waters to the Canadian port. The adult whale was an estimated 70 feet (21 meters) long.
The Princess Cruise Lines' Sapphire Princess was docked at the Canada Place terminal Saturday with the whale stuck to it.
"Basically like a train coming through, it just hits them. That bow is kind of like a spear. And once they're hit by it, it probably breaks their back, kills them almost instantly," Craig Delahunt of Tymac Launch Service told AP Television News.
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Unfortunately, this was all a miscommunication with the mostly English speaking crew. In an effort to improve interactions with passengers, the crew was exposed to the ‘Save the Whales’ campaign.
In an effort to mitigate this misunderstanding, the cruise line has now ordered and plans to put in every staff mess hall toothpicks with the phrase ‘Not on the ship’ printed upon them.
“Impaled Whale Ale”.
Is that available in pale? Can you send it in the mail?
Damn, I was on that boat! (July 2006)
Darwin Award?
Liberals care about whales.
What is it with this guy? I have watched a couple of the whale war episodes and can't beleive this guy skippers a large vessel. He always looks like he just got done sucking down a quart of wiskey when he comes onto the bridge.
For impailing the whale, which is an epic fail, you first have to pay the bail.
It will cost a fin? (fiver?)
I watched that show a couple of times, and I always ended up by the end of the show screaming to the whalers “SINK HIM! RAM HIM!”
I just keep hoping the JDF sends down a cruiser and puts a 5” round through the bridge porthole and ends this idiots reign of piracy.
Plus if it's stuck on there what are you going to do about it in the middle of the ocean?? There's no way it's coming off until they can get some heavy equipment to pull it off.
LOL!
You don’t think they have a big stick that they could just pry it off with.... :)
Full reverse might have worked.
I can’t believe Discovery has given a prime time show dedicated to terrorism/piracy.
Look at post 11, relative to the size of this boat, this thing was nothing... might have added some drag, but that’s about it.
Oh, I don't know ... how about if you just back up real quickly.
After all, that's how I get the pedestrians off the hood of my car after I speed through crosswalks.
[smile]
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FWIW I am struck by the two worlds. Whale Wars and Deadliest Catch are filmed at about the same time. You watch Whale Wars where they can hardly get out of their own way and then flip to DC and the crew of the Time Bandit are fishing in 45 foot seas with a temp of 5 degrees, a 50 knot wind and loving it. The contrast of the two worlds is stunning. Free market at it's rawest and most basic and feel good at it's best.
Is that available in pale? Can you send it in the mail?
I have a friend named Ahab who is obsessed with Impaled Pale Whale Ale.
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