Cruise ship sails into New York with dead endangered whale across its bow
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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.
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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.