Just When You Thought Bird Watching Was Safe

[ExiledInIllinois]

Crazy story... 

 

https://weather.com/news/video/five-people-dead-after-new-zealand-boat-capsizes-possibly-from-collision-with-a-whale?pl=pl-the-latest

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/new-zealand-boat-hits-whale-and-capsizes-leaving-at-least-2-dead-3-missing/

 

"Five women on an ocean bird-watching trip died when what is believed to be a whale collided with the small charter boat they were sailing on in New Zealand , reports said."

[Simon]

They should have been watching for whales instead.

[BuffaloBill]

I flip the bird for other driver’s to watch all of the time.  It’s probably not a very safe thing to do.

 

However back to the point of the thread, what a bizarre situation.

[US Egg]

Did a couple whale watching trips decades ago out of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

 

The whales toyed with the boat. Brushing and bumping under it unseen and then surfacing along the sides, seemingly, nudging it along, kind of directing the boat. They made the boat seem smaller than it was. They splashed us with their fins and tails, spun up out of the water twisting and making huge splashes, some easily rocking the boat. There were near two dozen whales.

 

Whales are huge, powerful, scary. Never go bird watching on a boat in whale territory.