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Cruise ship inadvertently harpoons whale
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) A cruise ship pulled into port in Saint John on Sunday and made a gruesome discovery a 20-metre whale had been impaled on its bow.
The crew of the Jewel of the Seas apparently wasn't even aware of the dead animal's presence until the 925-metre vessel pulled along the wharf.
The ship's crew spotted the whale around the same time as officers in a small utility boat, who had been dispatched to help tie up the ship, said Bruce Fiander of the coast guard's traffic operations centre.
"It's not a right whale," he said, referring to the endangered whale species.
"That's the biggest concern people had, because there are so few in number."
Fiander said it's believed it was a finback whale.
The whale was towed out to sea by a coast guard vessel.
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) A cruise ship pulled into port in Saint John on Sunday and made a gruesome discovery a 20-metre whale had been impaled on its bow.
The crew of the Jewel of the Seas apparently wasn't even aware of the dead animal's presence until the 925-metre vessel pulled along the wharf.
The ship's crew spotted the whale around the same time as officers in a small utility boat, who had been dispatched to help tie up the ship, said Bruce Fiander of the coast guard's traffic operations centre.
"It's not a right whale," he said, referring to the endangered whale species.
"That's the biggest concern people had, because there are so few in number."
Fiander said it's believed it was a finback whale.
The whale was towed out to sea by a coast guard vessel.
