Princess Cruise Ship Impales Whale, Photo and Video of Sapphire Princess in Vancouver Harbour

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Posted on: July 25th, 2009

This was an unusual sight for tourists as they watched the beautiful Princess Cruise Lines Ship, “Sapphire Princess” dock in Vancouver Harbour this morning.

The 50-foot long Fin Whale, weighing approximately 200,000 pounds, was impaled by the cruise ship enroute from Alaska to British Columbia. Apparently, this is a rare occurrence although I do remember hearing of a similar sad event about 10 years ago.

This CTV News clip video shows the whale impaled on the hull just above the bulbous bow.

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HeatherinBC said on July 26th, 2009 at 12:40 am

CTV News: Cruise ship impales whale, photo and video taken in Vancouver Harbour: http://bit.ly/xp44S
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john sheperd (1 comments.) said on July 26th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

It wouldn’t really be a surprise if things as huge as this ship would be breaking and hurting some of the natural wonders of our oceans.
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Cruise Travel Tips (1 comments.) said on August 5th, 2009 at 7:34 am

they can do nothing to stop this kind of incidents…
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