Whale lands on boat.

How many of you saw this on the news?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/slideshow/whale-crashed-boat-11216635

See thumbnail.

Bazza

 

Yeah, I saw this also. Bizarre.

Some animal experts are charging the boat operator got too close or otherwise antagonized the critter.

The boat operator was reported to say "He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him round the Moons of Nibia, and round the Antares Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!"

Uhh, no - wait . . . that was Cap'n Ahab in Melville's Moby Dick. I guess the boat operator actually said something like "AAAAAAHHHHRGGGGGHHHHHH" and then had to go and change his pants . . .

:-D

 

oops . . . I stand corrected - I've been reminded that the quote was actually from Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn" and just alluded to Melville's work.

The actual quote from Moby Dick was; "He tasks me; he heaps me. Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."

With all due respect to Herman . . . I kinda prefer Khan's version!

 

hehe yeah i saw this LOL it does seems quite odd that the whale just takes a dive at a boat, and that the tourist photographed it

 

Yeah seen this too :-D:-D click the link and look at the photo of the boat after the whale had finished !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10712323

 

Re: Wholesale Corum watches

@rustyJack ROFLMAO took out mast they were lucky thatthey had a motor or they'd be screwed

 

Video interview with the yaught owners
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...76/ns/world_news-africa/

 

Maybe it was just tired of swimming and wanted to ride for awhile! :-D

 

Yes, I did see that on TV Baz. There's a lot of whale watching off the coast of Monterey, Calif actually. Think it's more common then people think. Surly would want to be in a bigger boat.

 

We have 2 special "white" whales that swim up and down our Cairns coast.

Chech out: http://www.migaloo.com.au/

See attachment. Let us hope that no harm comes to these 2 white whales.

Bazza

 

How cool is that. Might be 'ol Moby's great grandson :-D

Nice pic.

 

Interesting story shame there isn't video of the incident,while looking for one though I came across this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDZoyjO5cY

Boom!

EDIT fake video though

 

Rikky, roflmao.

Bazza

 

See . . . this kind of thing is why you should just stay indoors. Nature can't jack with you if you stay out of it . . .

 

not a whale, but equally funny

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10753021

 

That means nothing to me:-D I only read fictional books when forced to at school...Mostly Shakespeare