What are the odds that something like
this has never happened before?
About 80 tourists were aboard the trawler Reine, which was headed for areas off the Arctic Lofoten Islands known for their abundance of whales, when the incident happened on Saturday, the boat's skipper Geir Maan said by telephone on Wednesday.
Hmmm...an area with an "abundance of whales." Who else is that going to attract? Why, whalers, of course!
"We were on our way out to the whale watching area when we passed a whaling boat,"Maan, the boat's skipper, told The Associated Press. Usually, whaling and tour boats maintain a distance between them.
"This time, we got close, and right when they were passing, I realized they had a minke whale in firing range,"he said.
The whaling boat fired, and Maan said he later learned through the hunters that it had made a kill in front of the tourists.
"Some were pretty upset,"he said."Many thought it was awful to see."
I wonder if they got their money back.
3 comments:
why would they get their money back? they got to see a whale. sure it was a whale getting killed, but hey, a whale is a whale.
Sounds like something cool to watch. Where can I go to see such exciting action?
Norway, apparently. I believe Japan also has a commercial whaling program, too.
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