Cruise Ship Hits Whale

Whale killed by cruise ship near New York amid upsurge in cetacean strikes.

Cruise ship hits whale. Strike is third in north-east waters in recent weeks. Ida Siegal reports. I also had the pleasure of serving alongside the us navy submarine force.

Public broadcaster NHK quoted a marine expert who said the scale of the impact suggests the ship struck a whale. Ferry operators said the vessel hit an object leaving a 15cm 6in crack in its stern. A dead 30-foot whale found on the Brooklyn side of New York Harbor Monday morning is believed to have been struck by a cruise ship that was later disabled for several hours as.

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. The carcass of a humpback whale. While at SUNY maritime college my roommate was tasked with removing a whale from the azipod of the cruise ship he was working on.

They struck the whale with the azipod and was stuck in the propeller disabling that pod. 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. Dead whale has washed up in Burrard Inlet in Vancouver.

ANCHORAGE Alaska A cruise ship reached an Alaska port with a surprise on its bow. That ship is propelled by azipods and the whale actually disabled the ship or at least that azipod which is one of six. 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.

The dead whale was discovered lodged on the cruise ships bulbous bow upon entering the port in Ketchikan Alaska. The Grand Princess a 290-metre ship in the Princess Cruises fleet pulled into Ketchikan with. A cruise ship reached an Alaskan port with a surprise on its bow.