So what is the problem? They got to witness man and whale, plus a little biology class for free.
It’s one of those “Circle of Life” kind of things.
Yes, but the question is will she be willing to give up her nightly bowl of blubber and her whale oil lamp so as to avoid such atrocities?! I wager, sire, that when push comes to shove she will NOT!!
I always wanted to see what would happen if I stood in line to get on a whale watching boat while holding a harpoon.
I’ve eaten whale meat. It is like the best steak imaginable.
This reminds me of the story (or urban legend) about one of those cute little sea otters that was rescued from Prince William Sound in 1989 after the Exxon Valdez experienced a slight leak.
The sea otter was rehabilitated at the cost of thousands of dollars at a facility in Kalifornia. There was a big celebration and photo op for the local politicos and otter lovers when the critter was finally well enough to be released back into “the wild”.
As everyone watched the cute little fuzzball swim out into the bay a pod of Orcas showed up and one of them ate the otter.
If it really happened I sure wish I’d been there to see the faces of the bystanders.
Where was the Bird of Prey when you needed it?
tell ‘em to watch Star Trek IV and they’ll feel all better.
This is a good thing. Those people were out there to study the whales and now they know how they are harpooned and brought into the ship. Now they can go to the cannery to see how it is packaged and put on the market. A full education.
Exactly how we Americans feel when you Frenchies eat our beautiful horses!!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!
“Honey! Look at the cute whale!”
“THUNK!”
“SHREEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK”
All your blubber are belong to us!
Cooooooool! It’s gotta make a better vacation story than just another boring whale-watching.
This sounds like something out of South Park...
How the H_ll did she think people got whale oil, and whale to eat?
Life sucks. Then you die.
Sounds like pretty poor planning on the part of whoever organized the outing, not to check with local whalers to avoid this sort of thing. I mean, if I took my kids to the petting-zoo and got there just as the vets where shooting a pony with a broken leg, I’d be pretty upset too. Not to mention my kids.
They could at least have sliced off a couple of pounds and offered them some samples.
“Save the plankton, kill the whales!”
Simple.
The whaling skipper circles in an area while the whale watching boat skippers fan out from that area to look for whales. Upon spotting a whale, the whale watching skipper lets the tourists take their photos, goes away and then radios in the whale's position back to the whaler. The whaling skipper then speeds in and kills the whale just as soon as the whale watching boat goes over the horizon with the tourists looking at their digital photos and rhapsodizing about the wonders of Nature.
What?!?!?
He asked!