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BMG
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Baja Ha Ha boat sunk by whales
The J/World Sailing School and Charter boat was apparently struck repeatedly by whales while sailing south with the Baja Ha Ha and sunk within
minutes. All crew are safe. Here is the J/World blog.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Cyanide41
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crazy! Whale attacks!
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rpleger
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Sweet revenge...
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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i sure would be interested to hear what kind of whales these were...unprovoked attacks are exceedinly rare...maybe they hit a baby? but ya never
know...I"ve seen whales that had been hit by other boats take their anger out on the closest vessel even though they were innocent.
I'm glad everyone is OK and the USCG was on the ball.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
i sure would be interested to hear what kind of whales these were...unprovoked attacks are exceedinly rare...maybe they hit a baby? but ya never
know...I"ve seen whales that had been hit by other boats take their anger out on the closest vessel even though they were innocent.
I'm glad everyone is OK and the USCG was on the ball. |
The news (TV) this morning said the sailboat moved into a pod of grey whales (or maybe the whale pod moved into the sail boat) and the rudder was
cracked (off?) by one, water began pouring in and in 7 minutes the boat was gone... all got into the life raft safely... only injury was to the
teacher's hand.
Grey whales were once known as 'Devilfish' because of the revenge they took upon the whalers... So, they must have the ability to break boats?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
i sure would be interested to hear what kind of whales these were...unprovoked attacks are exceedinly rare...maybe they hit a baby? but ya never
know...I"ve seen whales that had been hit by other boats take their anger out on the closest vessel even though they were innocent.
I'm glad everyone is OK and the USCG was on the ball. |
The news (TV) this morning said the sailboat moved into a pod of grey whales (or maybe the whale pod moved into the sail boat) and the rudder was
cracked (off?) by one, water began pouring in and in 7 minutes the boat was gone... all got into the life raft safely... only injury was to the
teacher's hand.
Grey whales were once known as 'Devilfish' because of the revenge they took upon the whalers... So, they must have the ability to break boats?
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hmmm, grey whales usually don't travel in pods, and sort of a bit too early for greys.
perhaps they should have called the grey whales "freedom fighters" and called the whalers "devilfishermen."
rudders on small boats are fragile, and just about any whale can break a rudder even if whale is just "playing around" or scratching his back
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BMG
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May have been blue whales. The Latitude 38 website has an update on the incident.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Grey whales were once known as 'Devilfish' because of the revenge they took upon the whalers... So, they must have the ability to break boats?
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They need to go further south and engage the Japanese Whalers down in Antarctica in th Southern oceans..
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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I'm definitely with BMG and goat on this one. There's no evidence of grey whales being in that area at this time of the year.
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lat 38 says the boat "sailed into" a pod of wahles and the whales "attacked." i say the opposite, any sane whale would think themselves under attack
if a boat sailed into their pod and crashed into one or more whales, and the whales were rightly defending themselves from the interloper who
presented a threat.
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Twas a monstrous White Whale perhaps?
| Quote: | Originally posted by rpleger
Sweet revenge... |
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Whales have a long memory, and may decided to have the last Ha Ha. Think whaling days. It was not that long ago in these Baja waters.
Perhaps fiction..pehaps not. There once was a whaler from Nantucket..or was it New Bedford?...
Captain Ahab , "I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition's flames before I give him
up."
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"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale."
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Actual whale event offshore Mulege:
While out fishing one morning, we had a whale come straight at the bow, then dove under my boat, staying in clear sight under the
water, and surface about 50 yards astern. It began to feed on a giant ball of baitfish I had just passed through. The whale made 2 passes through
the swirling baitball and pretty much inhaled all of it in it's open maw.
Two Dogs and I swear we had nothing stronger than coffee that morning...so help us Ahab. 
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[Edited on 10-29-2009 by Pompano]
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Just shows you to be skeptical of TV news... 
I don't expect the grey's to be passing here until later next month... But, you know what 'they' say about Global Warming... Perhaps the arctic will
not get too cold, and the whales won't come to Baja to get warm!? 
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Who is Ahab?
Why Ahab is Ahab.
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Last one, I promise...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
So, they must have the ability to break boats? |
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to live on earth. They can exceed more than 100' in length and weigh up to 200 tons. A J/120 sailboat
is 40' long and displaces about 7 tons.
No contest.
As to what a pod of whales are 'thinking' about a sailboat in their midst, who can say? There was a blue that was apparently killed by a ship recently
in the Ensenada/San Diego area recently and another just north of the Bay Area. Maybe they are getting pi**ed off.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
Maybe they are getting pi**ed off. |
Oh man...you don't want to do that. Look at those teeth in the picture up there. 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Oh man...you don't want to do that. Look at those teeth in the picture up there. |
That's a blue white cross.
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Look at those teeth in the picture up there. |
Hollywood strikes again.
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I can just hear the helmsman, oh look! there are some whales, lets get closer.
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