(click for bigger, picture AP via BBC) Gentle Giant of the Oceans mown down by rapacious oil squanderers, Gaia Weeps
Now I'm no Marine Biologist nor an expert on cetaceans, but I'm guessing the whale was already brown bread before the ship hit it.
Either that or it was a group of teenage hoodie whales and a game of 'chicken' gone tragically wrong.
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Edit: After doing the barest amount of research, I find that Fin Whales, feed by lunging through the water , this can carry them forward upto 35 feet.
"The lunge creates an incredible amount of drag and essentially stops the whale dead in the water," Goldbogen said. "So any subsequent movement requires an acceleration from rest, which comes at a high energetic cost."
So it may be it was feeding and couldn't get out of the way in time.
Now I'm no Marine Biologist nor an expert on cetaceans, but I'm guessing the whale was already brown bread before the ship hit it.
Either that or it was a group of teenage hoodie whales and a game of 'chicken' gone tragically wrong.
.
Edit: After doing the barest amount of research, I find that Fin Whales, feed by lunging through the water , this can carry them forward upto 35 feet.
"The lunge creates an incredible amount of drag and essentially stops the whale dead in the water," Goldbogen said. "So any subsequent movement requires an acceleration from rest, which comes at a high energetic cost."
So it may be it was feeding and couldn't get out of the way in time.
If they can't detect a bloody big whale, how could they even tell an iceberg is coming up? I sense Titanic II coming in time for the 2010 Oscars...someone let Celine Dion out of the basement!!
ReplyDeleteLucky it wasn't a police launch. 'It fell down the gangway, guv...' wouldn't really fly, would it?
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