Cruise Ship Hits Whale

A Vancouver harbour worker Craig Delahunt of Tymac Launch Service.

Cruise ship hits whale. Dead whale has washed up in Burrard Inlet in Vancouver. Canadian authorities who inspected the whale said it was struck by a cruise shipThe whale was hit north of Vancouver Island by the cruise ship The Seven Seas Navigator that was returning from AlaskaJohn Ford research scientist with FOC said - this is the third time since the 1990s that a fin whale has. A cruise ship reached an Alaskan port with a surprise on its bow.

There were three whale strikes recently. Sei whale carcass dragged into Hudson River. The Grand Princess a 290-metre ship in the Princess Cruises fleet pulled into Ketchikan with.

Ferry operators said the vessel hit an object leaving a 15cm 6in crack in its stern. Ida Siegal reports. Juneau AK The humpback whale discovered last Wednesday draped across the bulbous bow of the Sapphire Princess was likely deceased before it was struck by the cruise ship says NOAAs National Marine Fisheries Service.

While at SUNY maritime college my roommate was tasked with removing a whale from the azipod of the cruise ship he was working on. Cruise ship fatally hits a 30 FOOT whale and drags it into the Hudson River adding to the mysteriously growing number of whale strikes on the East Coast. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Holland Americas Zaandam struck an endangered fin whale last year and carried the. The carcass of a humpback whale. He was one of the divers that cut it free using galley knives.

I also had the pleasure of serving alongside the us navy submarine force. In an agreement with prosecutors Princess a division of Carnival Corp pleaded guilty to knowingly failing to operate the cruise ship at a slow safe speed while near two whales on July 12 2001. Cruise ship-whale strikes are hardly uncommon.