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Palmazon and Dave crocheting. What an image.

I bet that all you skeptics have not spent any time at sea. Unbelievable things happen at sea. Like they say, cruising is 98% boredom and 2% sheer terror. S-it does happen at sea. Jim (Edit - this thread has run its course, so it's now officially closed. And inserting a hyphen into a "bad word" doesn't make it any more acceptable, so please refrain from this, since it will cause a thread to be closed or deleted - bgl).

Randy, You are making it difficult for me to decide whether it is a fake or not. Especially since I am soending more time on it than my interest supports. I love the reporting too, sometimes it is a 40 foot whale, sometimes it is a 40 ton whale,...it is pretty clear that it is neither. I declare it fake and let the chips, or whales for that matter, fall where they may.

A video has arisden that shows the collision from a distance. It is very shaky, sometimes the boat goes out of view but would be indicative of a video shot from a boat at sea. I may be changing my mind on whether its a photoshopped picture. The person who shot this video would have to have gone through editing techniques that would have been very rigorous in order to support the famous photo.... Skeptic I am not,....cynic? Oh, yes!

Maybe because it didn't happen this time, either! Boy, I hate to say this, but . . . Like 9-11? Was that photo-shopped? That would be a trick as it was covered live on several live feeds nationally......not the same thing. I watched it happen....it was shocking.

Hear of him? Nearly broke it.

Maybe because it didn't happen this time, either!

I watched the interview and in my opinion they are being truthfull. The photo says "Courtesty of Paloma Werner", who was on the Intrepid. So, that's weird. Maybe someone gave her the photo and she forwarded it onto the media.

CNN says it's the real thing! This morning they had a story about the incident & they showed video of the damaged boat at the dock. Perfect example of the wrong place at the wrong time. Randy

see and decide for yourselves. I am clueless.... http://www.news24.com/Galleries/Image/Images/MyNews24/Whale%20breaches%20onto%20yacht

This photo was nominated as National Geographic's photo of the year in 2005......and was finally withdrawn as a hoax....... People can do some tremendous editing nowadays

hmm. Well, you were looking a little heavy at the Darian . . . . Not unlike me! The shadows don't look right to me....also, the whale is breaching well aft in the photo and all of the damage is at the mast. Also, I am not sure the the hull of a 33 foot sailboat would survive such a smack. No one got hurt in this? Not believable. The photos of the damage are not convincing to me.....something else happened. Mr. Skeptic

Photoshop....

Freaky. I once accidentally hooked a pilot whale in the back while trolling a lure. The whole pod circled the yacht and I was rather worried until the lure pulled free and they relaxed and sounded again. They are too large to ignore. Jim

WOW!!!

That's crazy. I know there were some expletives involved in that one.