Cruise ship sails into New York with dead endangered whale across its bow
Cruise ship sails into New York with dead endangered whale across its bow
A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 13-metre dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said.
The whale, identified as an endangered sei whale, was caught on the ship's bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said.
A video posted to YouTube on Saturday appears to show the whale's carcass hanging off the bow of the vessel, with the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline in the background.
A video posted to YouTube on Saturday appears to show the whale’s carcass hanging off the bow of the vessel, with the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline in the background.
Goddamn that's patriotic
If you listen closely, you can hear the ship's captain yelling at the whale, "Hey, I'm fucking sailing here!!"
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of any marine life," the officials said, adding that the Geneva-based MSC Cruises follows all regulations designed to protect whales, such as altering itineraries in certain regions to avoid hitting the animals.
Translation: We don't give a fuck what happened because we do the absolute minimum to abide by laws we lobbied into existence, therefore we will not face any consequences.
Why would the corporate spokesperson say anything else? Why would the corporation do more than the law requires?
Society should improve the laws
So I'm not a biologist or any gist that would know something about this. How would the cruise ship have avoided hitting the whale? Do these things just happen and it just sticks more because the whale was endangered?
That whale had it coming. We tried to warn him.
Stupid sexy whale, just look at what it was wearing!
You just plow through them, there’s not really much a ship that size can do
The good thing is, sea life of any kind will stop being a navigational concern within our lifetimes!
Unfortunately so will the sea. Although it does open new trucking routes. Though they might need to be build a bridge over the Mariana trench.
Whale had it coming - Dolphin is next!
It was actually just a giant chicken disguised as an endangered whale by his cow friend.
I think the whale stops being endangered once it is dead.
ducksandruns sorrynotsorry
Geez that’s dark
what do they do with the whale carcass? like, dispose of it, sure but how?
Flush it down a really big toilet
I'm on the other coast, but the last time a whale carcass was about to land here, they towed it way back out in the ocean and sharks were eating it the entire time they were towing it.
I was hoping for this response.