Cruise Ship Hits Whale

The Grand Princess a 290-metre ship in the Princess Cruises fleet pulled into Ketchikan with.

Cruise ship hits whale. A Vancouver harbour worker Craig Delahunt of Tymac Launch Service. Public broadcaster NHK quoted a marine expert who said the scale of the impact suggests the ship struck a whale. A 45-foot whale found belly-up New York Harbor suffered blunt-force trauma likely caused by a collision Sunday with a Norwegian Cruise Line ship that was stalled in the Hudson River for hours.

Ferry operators said the vessel hit an object leaving a 15cm 6in crack in its stern. Sei whale carcass dragged into Hudson River. This is a picture I snapped of a ship at port Newark NJ.

They struck the whale with the azipod and was stuck in the propeller disabling that pod. I was a civil. A cruise ship reached an Alaskan port with a surprise on its bow.

Strike is third in north-east waters in recent weeks. As an aside my roommate at SUNY Maritime was on cruise ship that struck a whale. The dead whale was discovered lodged on the cruise ships bulbous bow upon entering the port in Ketchikan Alaska.

There were three whale strikes recently. 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. Cruise ship-whale strikes are hardly uncommon.

He was one of the divers that cut it free using galley knives. A dead 30-foot whale found on the Brooklyn side of New York Harbor Monday morning is believed to have been struck by a cruise ship that was later disabled for several hours as. This latest incident is reportedly the second time in two years involving a whale strike caused by a cruise ship in Alaska.