Cruise Ship Hits Whale

They struck the whale with the azipod and was stuck in the propeller disabling that pod.

Cruise ship hits whale. A Vancouver harbour worker Craig Delahunt of Tymac Launch Service. Ida Siegal reports. The cruise line paid 750000 in 2007 to settle criminal charges related to a dead pregnant humpback whale found in Glacier Bay Alaska in 2001.

The dead whale was discovered lodged on the cruise ships bulbous bow upon entering the port in Ketchikan Alaska. The Sapphire Princess may have struck the whale in Alaskan waters and carried it unknowingly wedged on the bow back to Canada. Ferry operators said the vessel hit an object leaving a 15cm 6in crack in its stern.

In an agreement with prosecutors Princess a division of Carnival Corp pleaded guilty to knowingly failing to operate the cruise ship at a slow safe speed while near two whales on July 12 2001. This is a picture I snapped of a ship at port Newark NJ. After alerting the Coast Guard and other lo.

He was one of the divers that cut it free using galley knives. Cruise ship-whale strikes are hardly uncommon. The carcass of a humpback whale.

The Grand Princess a 949-foot ship in the Princess Cruises fleet on. Cruise ship fatally hits a 30 FOOT whale and drags it into the Hudson River adding to the mysteriously growing number of whale strikes on the East Coast. Public broadcaster NHK quoted a marine expert who said the scale of the impact suggests the ship struck a whale.

Whale killed by cruise ship near New York amid upsurge in cetacean strikes. ANCHORAGE Alaska A cruise ship reached an Alaska port with a surprise on its bow. Sei whale carcass dragged into Hudson River.