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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Cut him some slack. He probably learned his seamanship on the Exxon Valdez. Maybe he's Joe Hazelwoods long lost brother :~)
Now in Oregon we know what to do with a dead whale. Blow it up! Blow it up!
LOL! I laughed so hard when I first saw that on Youtube my wife ran into the room thinking I was having a seizure.
LOL, yeah, he’s a lousy captain, and everyone onboard seems thoroughly incompetent. I’ll bet it’s one big hippy-fest, the place must stink to high hell from pot smoke.
The upthread comparison to Deadliest Catch guys is interesting, what a huge difference.
Scumbag, that’s the perfect description for Watson.
*snicker*
Great movie
Whale says to his buddy: “I’ll bet you a fin you can’t get across this sea lane before that cruise ship gets here.”
This has the makings of some kind of drunken Dr. Seus rhyme.
What is with the jet engines on the roof?
That’s their ekranoplan shore launch.
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