Bradford R. Crain wrote: > Thanks to Jackie Myers for so thoroughly researching this incident off > the California coast. The death of two seakayakers by breaching whale > seems > like a bit of a stretch. Not really. Whale/human encounters are almost always harmless (for the human). However, once in a while, sh*t happens.... Cool photos of a Newfoundland kayaker kayaking with whales http://members.tripod.com/mcgruer-ivil/id10.html Whale's Jump Leads To Man's Death http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E2D6163EF937A3575AC0A9649C8B63 Angry Whale Attacks Boat, Kills Japanese Fisherman http://video.aol.com/video-detail/angry-whale-attacks-boat-kills-japanese-fisherman/1721961108 Yacht crew stranded after possible whale collision http://starbulletin.com/2006/07/26/news/story15.html Young humpback jumps, falls on tourist http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2001/Feb/15/215localnews30.html During the 2003-2004 season, a Maui fisherman was knocked unconscious after his boat collided with a whale near Wailuku https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/800/107466/&printerfriendly=1 New Moby Dick? Boat crasher a rare white whale http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/08/22/white.whale/ Whale wrecks family's sailing trip http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/3164413.stm Issues Affecting the Southern Resident Orcas Kayakers even present a problem here because they're so quiet. Marine animals, busy hunting and feeding under the surface of the water, may not be aware that there is a kayak above them and actually hit the bottom of it as they surface to breathe. http://www.whale-museum.org/education/library/issues.html Whale Sends A Bark To Davy Jones's Locker http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E2D71230E733A25756C2A9629C946397D6CF And just for fun..... Orca and dog http://www.youtube.co 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 Apr 29 2008 - 21:16:48 PDT
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