unexpect whale visit
Kalli De Meyer
kdm at bonairelive.com
Wed Jan 12 14:32:52 EST 2000
Coral listers
Yesterday Bonaire saw the unexpected arrival of a Tropical Whale
(Balaeonoptera edeni) aboard a cruise boat. It had been impaled on
the bow of the vessel. The Captain of the vessel said they noticed
nothing but ships log showed a slowing in their speed from which
we can guess where the incident occured (15 miles SW of Los
Aves island off the Venezuelan coast).
As far as we could see it was an adult (12.4m) animal with nothing
obviously wrong with it which could not be accounted for by the
impact of the collision.
Does anyone know of any other such incidents or are we dealing
with an isolated daft/unfortunate animal ??
Kalli De Meyer
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