Cruise Ship Kills Whale

Strike is third in north-east waters in recent weeks.

Cruise ship kills whale. The 6-metre long humpback was harpooned by the 290-metre ship ending up lodged on its submerged bow. The 45-year-old female whale is thought to have crashed into a Norwegian Cruise Line ship. A pretty small fishing boat it could probably damage or cause to sink if it leapt out the water and landed on it but a battles.

Sunday on the bulbous bow of the Zaandam a Holland America Line cruise ship as. Sei whale carcass dragged into Hudson River. Researchers are only beginning to understand the extent of death caused by ocean-traveling vessels.

A cruise ship hit and killed a 30 foot whale and dragged it into the Huron River this month adding to a growing number of strikes along the East Coast this year. Steve Corporon Ketchikan director of ports and harbors said a tugboat towed the whale 8 miles to Blank Inlet on Gravina Island for the. After a Holland America ship.

A 45-foot whale found belly-up Monday in New York Harbor suffered blunt-force trauma likely caused by a collision with a Norwegian Cruise Line ship officials said Tuesday. One of the two orcas killed by Barrouallie whalers was shot in the presence of a whale watching group. ANCHORAGE Alaska A necropsy has been completed on a 50-foot fin whale discovered Sunday on the bow of a cruise ship entering an.

A cruise ship has cancelled all its whale and dolphin watching tours during its calls to St. In that instance in June of 1999 the Celebrity Cruise vessel MV Galaxy collided with an adult male fin whale which likely happened as the ship transited the Hecate Strait north of Vancouver. AIDA and Hapag Lloyd wrote then letters to the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands - but without success since the killing of pilot whales continues.

The cause of death was not immediately apparent for the endangered whale spotted just after 5 am. Also know is a blue whale bigger than a cruise ship. Whale killed by cruise ship near New York amid upsurge in cetacean strikes.