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Breaching Right Whale lands on Yacht

DoomsDave
DoomsDave
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Howdyall:

Couldn't resist this one.

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It is what it looks like. That whale landed partially on that boat and broke the mast. No one, including the whale was hurt.

Still, quite a bit of excitement for the people in the boat, and the observers who took the picture.

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That's crazy. :wacko:

I know there were some expletives involved in that one.

Oakley, California

55 Miles E-NE of San Francisco, CA

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Hot, dry summers. Cold, wet winters.

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    WOW!!!

    Jonathan
     

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    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

    Located on Vanua Levu near Savusavu (16degrees South) Elevation from sealevel to 30meters with average annual rainfall of 2800mm (110in) with temperature from 18 to 34C (65 to 92F).

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    Photoshop....

    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

    USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

    "Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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    Photoshop....

    hmm.

    Well, you were looking a little heavy at the Darian . . . . :)

    Not unlike me!

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    Photoshop....

    hmm.

    Well, you were looking a little heavy at the Darian . . . . smilie.gif

    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

    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

    USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

    "Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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    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

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    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

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    Not a very good job at photoshopping. They should have done it on a high resolution image and then shrunk it afterwards. This looks like it was done on a low resolution image, hence the poor quality of the job.

    photoshop for sure, look at the skipper, just sailing along, another carefree day on the cool blue, no worries.

    Happy Gardening

    Cheers,

    Wal

    Queensland, Australia.

    Wal, thats what I was thinking! No way can a whale be breeching right next to your boat and you are just staring straight ahead. Any one would be looking at the whale at this point-its instinctive.

    And doesn't it strike you odd that somebody happened to be in exactly the right place at the right time with their camera in focus and ready for action...:hmm:

    Looking at the later damage photos, it just looks like a broken mast. That whale would have done a hell of a lot more damage!

    Daryl

    Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

    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 :)

    "If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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    This is the real deal! I seen it on LA, Ca. ABC tv news! They had a short interview of the lady on board. They mentioned there was $5,000.00 in damage to the boat and the whale left some blubber on the boat. It happened to a local boat a few years back killing the owner of the boat.

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    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.

    Matt Bradford

    "Manambe Lavaka"

    Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

    10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

    9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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    The real question is why hasn't this happened before?

    Whales breach all the time, and sometimes near boats. I suspect (desperately hope!) that they're smart and careful enough to want to avoid an accident, too.

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    The real question is why hasn't this happened before?

    Whales breach all the time, and sometimes near boats. I suspect (desperately hope!) that they're smart and careful enough to want to avoid an accident, too.

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

    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

    USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

    "Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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    The real question is why hasn't this happened before?

    Whales breach all the time, and sometimes near boats. I suspect (desperately hope!) that they're smart and careful enough to want to avoid an accident, too.

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    Matt Bradford

    "Manambe Lavaka"

    Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

    10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

    9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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    The real question is why hasn't this happened before?

    Whales breach all the time, and sometimes near boats. I suspect (desperately hope!) that they're smart and careful enough to want to avoid an accident, too.

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

    Boy, I hate to say this, but . . .

    Like various other horrors in the world, past and present? Were they photoshopped? Tell me, how do you decide? What particular criteria do you use? I'm really curious, because I do get snookered once in a while, though not this time.

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    The real question is why hasn't this happened before?

    Whales breach all the time, and sometimes near boats. I suspect (desperately hope!) that they're smart and careful enough to want to avoid an accident, too.

    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.

    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

    USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

    "Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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    The real question is why hasn't this happened before?

    Whales breach all the time, and sometimes near boats. I suspect (desperately hope!) that they're smart and careful enough to want to avoid an accident, too.

    Dave,

    Try reading my post #15smilie.gif

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    http://yachtpals.com/boat-whale-9117

    This link has a vidio of the same whale verses sailboat that you have seen in pics! Also some other neet whale stuff!

    I liked the video of the beached dead whale they blew up!

    Facinating really.

    Randy

    BTW Dave while I was on a sailboat racing at night we felt a big bump and the boat shuttered when we hit something big!

    Boats and wildlife clash often.

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    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!

    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

    USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

    "Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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    Bepah,

    Check out post #24 for a link to that video and more...

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    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.

    John Case

    Brentwood CA

    Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

    USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

    "Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

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    So, Randy, what about that guy (or gal) who killed locally? Any names, dates, places?

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    Film was on Aus ABC news last night. Not one piece of evidence mentioned though on who took the video and why they were taking the video at that time. The news reader read the report like it was straight from the internet. I think she said something like this

    "Amazing shots as a whale leapt out of the water and smashed into a yacht...blah blah"

    and nothing else about "who" "why" "when" , your basic journo elements of reporting, I know what those are, I'm an aussie ratpack reporter you see.. :D speaking of which, we are so overdue for some action... :(

    Basically I remain sceptical on the fish tale...

    Happy Gardening

    Cheers,

    Wal

    Queensland, Australia.
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    Goddamn, you are a skeptical bunch.

    I'll submit that knee-jerk skepticism deserves the same discredit as knee-jerk acceptance.

    I mean, if you can identify a specific reason why the film is fake, give it to us.

    Otherwise, well.

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    Goddamn, you are a skeptical bunch.

    I'll submit that knee-jerk skepticism deserves the same discredit as knee-jerk acceptance.

    I mean, if you can identify a specific reason why the film is fake, give it to us.

    Otherwise, well.

    Otherwise what Dave ? I couldn't give a crap if it's true or false. What's with you law folk ?

    Happy Gardening

    Cheers,

    Wal

    Queensland, Australia.

    Fake or not this stuff happens and get caught on film and pics frequently now that alot of people carry cameras with them all the time! Cell phones! Fish and boaters clash from time to time. Sometimes with deadly results for the fisherman or the casual boater! Fisherman have been speared to death by spearfish that they were trying to catch leap on board! A 17 year old boy got slammed by a very large marlin while straped into the fighting chair and got hurt badly about 2 years ago.!

    Dave, That happened several years ago where the owner of a Skipjack fishing boat got breached by a whale and killed. I remember he was a black man. The boat was badly damaged.

    So since this can happen and I have seen the video, pics and interview of the gal on board(three different sources by the way) I believe it to be true!

    Randy

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    Goddamn, you are a skeptical bunch.

    I'll submit that knee-jerk skepticism deserves the same discredit as knee-jerk acceptance.

    I mean, if you can identify a specific reason why the film is fake, give it to us.

    Otherwise, well.

    Otherwise what Dave ? I couldn't give a crap if it's true or false. What's with you law folk ?

    It's visible. It showed on the film. People testified that it happened.

    WHat more do you need?

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    Fake or not this stuff happens and get caught on film and pics frequently now that alot of people carry cameras with them all the time! Cell phones! Fish and boaters clash from time to time. Sometimes with deadly results for the fisherman or the casual boater! Fisherman have been speared to death by spearfish that they were trying to catch leap on board! A 17 year old boy got slammed by a very large marlin while straped into the fighting chair and got hurt badly about 2 years ago.!

    Dave, That happened several years ago where the owner of a Skipjack fishing boat got breached by a whale and killed. I remember he was a black man. The boat was badly damaged.

    So since this can happen and I have seen the video, pics and interview of the gal on board(three different sources by the way) I believe it to be true!

    Randy

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    Where?

    (The black guy always gets it. Dang, this is about to be deleted . . . . )

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    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).

    Located on Vanua Levu near Savusavu (16degrees South) Elevation from sealevel to 30meters with average annual rainfall of 2800mm (110in) with temperature from 18 to 34C (65 to 92F).

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