One reason there are regulations about maintaining a "respectful" distance from marine mammals.... *human* safety (these are both recent events). In this incident, the Japanese fishermen were attempting to guide what they believed to be was a stranded whale back out to sea. Unfortunately, the whale did not understand and one of the poor rescuers lost his life. It appears that after attacking the boat, the whale then when for the fisherman. http://keyetv.com/watercooler/local_story_072173537.html larger video http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=81184 Another incident involving careless divers who swam too close to a sleeping mother and her calf..... Startled whale shatters man's leg (see video) http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=nation_world&id=5111648 Jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 13 2007 - 16:50:17 PDT
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