Hitting Whales?

[Hygiene99]

What was the Smell was it the smell of Sewerage
I know that there are vents For the ships System and if u are in the right spot at the Right Time u May get A Wiff Could it have Been That ??

peter

 

[SeaSpray]

I definitely recall seeing stories of a recent "whale impalement" on this board. I think this is what they were referring to:


Whale impaled by cruise ship
WebPosted Sep 27 2004 09:11 AM ADT

SAINT JOHN — Passengers aboard the Jewel of the Seas faced an ugly sight on arrival in Saint John Sunday – a dead whale impaled on the cruise ship's bow. It was not known if the 20-metre finback whale was alive or dead when the ship struck it somewhere between Quebec City and the Bay of Fundy.

New Yorker Dennis Buck said passengers didn't find out about the whale until they arrived in port and saw the animal for themselves. Laurie Murison, of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station, said because finbacks can stretch 35 metres and longer, they often fall victim to ship collisions.

At first I didn't believe that the blunt, round-tipped front of a ship could impale a whale but then I saw the pictures of this myself. YUCK The whale was indeed skewered on the front of the ship, (I forget what they call that piece that sticks out in the front, an ice breaker or something??). The whale was impaled on that. So it's definitely possible for a whale to be impaled by a cruise ship.

 

[MarkRG]

Boaguy,

I know what you're talking about, but it's not a whale.

They're called 'algae blooms' and do happen out in the ocean and they really really stink when you run thru one.

And we were next to you on the 10 day, you talked to me when you were... out on the verandah.

And the round thing on the bow is a wave breaker, which gives us a much smoother ride.

 

[GenieDana]

Boaguy,

I know what you're talking about, but it's not a whale.

They're called 'algae blooms' and do happen out in the ocean and they really really stink when you run thru one.

And we were next to you on the 10 day, you talked to me when you were... out on the verandah.

And the round thing on the bow is a wave breaker, which gives us a much smoother ride.

The thing on the front ship is called a torpedo or called a bulbous bow. This protrusion is designed to increase the ship's speed and fuel efficiency when a vessel is travelling at relatively high speeds. When submerged, the structure breaks the water in front of the ship in a way that lets the hull of the ship slide through the water more easily. Ships without bulbous bows encounter heavy drag when they travel faster than around 15 knots, because their hull 'catches up' with the wave created by the bow of the ship. Adding a bulbous bow increases the speed of the ship by about 1 knot, or 1.12 mph, without any increase in engine power. This might not sound like much, but it adds up over the thousands and thousands of miles that saltwater ships travel at high speeds acrosss open stretches of ocean.

 

[ohiominnie]

And it probably cuts the gas mileage too! Our ship used 396,000 gallons of fuel during our recent 10 day cruise!

 

[tinkdancer]

I'm am pretty sure that's a myth, even though we didn't feel it because a boat that big wouldn't feel a thing. But it could happen.

 

[Boaguy]

Thanks for clearing that up, Mark...man that stunk! But yeah that was my friend actually not me.. I was the little short one in the room.