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“I thought that, too-I’ve never heard of a fishing charter booking 11 people for a boat that small-most specify no more than 6-7b people-and why was a charter boat-of any size out there running around where there had been several whales sighted in the 1st place? Sounds like a dumb thing to do...”
Bird-watching groups go “watching”, not fishing. Lots of 28’ boats certified t0 carry even more than 11 passengers.
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I don’t doubt that is true, and yes-I’ve seen small boats like the one in your posted photo taking whale watchers right up to whales-on TV-however, it still looks like a really risky thing to do-and in this case it obviously was. I live close to woods and walk there-but I wouldn’t walk up to a bear or mountain lion in the woods and watch them-same idea-wild animal in its own environment-better left alone and admired from a distance...
Peter Hockley is one of five people killed after a boating accident at Kaikōura on Saturday.
“We don’t even know who else is dead and who else survived. We just know that Dad was one of the ones in the cabin,” his daughter told Stuff at her parents Halswell home in Christchurch.
She paid tribute to her “amazing” father, saying he was an incredible photographer.
Hockley and 10 other people were on a Nature Photography Society of New Zealand field trip and were participating in a three-hour boating trip using Fish Kaikōura Charters on Saturday.
That guy looks like a lot of other folks my age ... Information is starting to come out on this capsizing.