Entry #22 – Poor Whale
Written on Jul 25th, 2009
I posted a photo of a cruise ship this morning surrounded by the mountains: I was just reading the news though, and apparently that very same ship ended up killing a baby whale: What appears to be a baby minke or fin whale has been impaled and killed on a cruise ship that docked in Vancouver Saturday morning. The whale, about 20 metres long, was wrapped around the bow of the ship in full view of tourists at Canada Place. A worker from the cruise ship, who didn’t want to be named, said he was not sure when the whale had been hit. The boat — the Sapphire Princess — had come in from Alaska on the Inside Passage, he said. “From what I hear there was a bit of a rumbling this morning,” he said. “It’s too bad; I wish we had some system to detect them. John Biehler […]
