Princess Cruise Ship Hits Whale
The dead whale was removed after the cruise ship docked in Ketchikan on Wednesday morning and towed to a nearby beach for Necropsy.
Princess cruise ship hits whale. The Grand Princess a 290-metre ship in the Princess Cruises fleet pulled into Ketchikan with the marine mammal lodged on its submerged bulbous bow a device designed to avoid wave-making. Humpback whale found impaled on Princess Cruises ship as it pulls into port in Ketchikan Alaska. In one of the most graphic photographs of a cruise ship whale strike in 2009 the Princess Cruises Sapphire Princess arrived in port in Vancouver unaware that the cruise ship impaled a fin whale on the ships bow while in Alaskan waters.
The vessel apparently struck the 70ft fin whale in Alaskan waters and carried it back to Vancouver. A whale carcass has been found lodged on the bulbous bow of a cruise ship when it arrived in Ketchikan Alaska. A cruise ship reached an Alaskan port with a surprise on its bow.
In the summer of 2001 a Princess Cruise Lines vessel the Dawn Princess ran into a pregnant female humpback whale in Glacier Bay Alaska killing the whale well-known to researchers as Whale 68. Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials look at the carcass of a whale lodged at the bow of a Princess Cruise Lines ship after docking in. Princess Cruise Lines paid 750000 Monday to settle charges it failed to operate one of its ships.
Ketchikan Daily News via. The whale was caught on the submerged bulbous bow of the cruise ship. A statement released by Princess Cruises said that the cruise ship involved was Grand Princess.
The Grand Princess a 949-foot ship in. There were three whale strikes recently. Princess Cruise Lines fined in whales death.
A cruise ship has returned to port with a dead whale jammed on its bow. In a statement see below the company stated that it doesnt. Princess cruise ship impales fin whale docks at Vancouver port Unclear whether whale was killed by ship or was hit after it died By Sam Cooper The Province July 25 2009 604 PM VANCOUVER A fin whale was impaled and dragged dead into the Port of Vancouver on the bow of a luxury cruise ship Saturday morning.
