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I bet if they dove in they wold have seen that the whale had an erection. Probably has a thing for a Cuddy Cabin in white fiberglass. They don't call them Hump Backs for nothing.

No, wait, opposite- Mama whale wants to push her baby up to the surface so babe can breath. The boat was much smaller than the whale.
 
I made the same deal with whales that I made with insects and rodents: if we're outside, live and let live. If you come into my house, I'll smush you. Let all whales learn from the cricket I killed in my bathroom this morning!
 
bonzombiekitty said:
To be a little fair, I totally understand the girl's general fear. As cool as it would be to have a whale that close, if it was just hanging around the small boat I was in and going under it, I'd be concerned it might inadvertently tip the boat over and want to get some distance between the boat and the whale. But turning on the prop to get away could mean hurting the whale, which I wouldn't want to do either.
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Yes, there is always some risk in a close encounter with a large animal, but going into panic mode is not going to do you any good. I've never had an encounter with a whale (living ~1000 miles from the nearest ocean makes that pretty unlikely), but I've had several with moose and one with a bison, both animals that have been known to kill people. Yes, the adrenaline flows and the heart rate increases, but I always managed to keep my head, and there is always a sense of relief when the big critter walks or runs away, or simply goes back to munching on the vegetation, having decided that I'm not a threat.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
In Boston, for about $50 each, you can pay to take a ferry out to the whale feeding grounds to see some whales. It's a popular tour. You don't get anywhere near as close as these folks. What a wasted experience. : (
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Same at many places in Australia, most particularly Hervey Bay in Queensland. These people are complete morons, and almost certainly broke the law by turning on their motor too (It would certainly be illegal here at any rate). What a waste.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
In Boston, for about $50 each, you can pay to take a ferry out to the whale feeding grounds to see some whales. It's a popular tour. You don't get anywhere near as close as these folks. What a wasted experience. : (
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In Norway, for $50, you can get around 2kg of tender juicy whale meat.
 
Damien Evans said:
Same at many places in Australia, most particularly Hervey Bay in Queensland. These people are complete morons, and almost certainly broke the law by turning on their motor too (It would certainly be illegal here at any rate). What a waste.
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Illegal here (I'm in the same area as the video) as well. There's one whale watching excursion company here in Port Townsend, but just across the Strait in Victoria, BC, there are tons of them. Including one called "Prince of Whales".
 
Ryokan said:
In Norway, for $50, you can get around 2kg of tender juicy whale meat.
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Which you can take home and prepare it in a traditional Norwegian manner: cover in 2kg of salt, then bury it underground for 6 months and then dig it up and then leave it in a ditch for another month, and then present it to a visiting foreigner telling them it is a time honoured tradition to present this to visitors...
 
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Darat said:
Which you can take home and prepare it in a traditional Norwegian manner: cover in 2kg of salt, then bury it underground for 6 months and then dig it up and then leave it in a ditch for another month, and then present it to a visiting foreigner telling them it is a time honoured tradition to present this to visitors...
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Sounds like a time honored tradition to prevent visitors.
 
Darat said:
Which you can take home and prepare it in a traditional Norwegian manner: cover in 2kg of salt, then bury it underground for 6 months and then dig it up and then leave it in a ditch for another month, and then present it to a visiting foreigner telling them it is a time honoured tradition to present this to visitors...
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That's fake news!

We would never give the good stuff to visitors.

That's what the herrings are for.
 
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