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[Guest db99wj]

Damn.

Whale of a tale! 40-ton mammal lands on yacht - World news - Africa - msnbc.com

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A South African couple was out sailing near the country's infamous Robben Island when a 40-ton whale breached and crash-landed on their yacht.

"We were watching the whale flipping its tail for about half an hour," said Cape Town Sailing Academy Administrator Paloma Werner, who was enjoying a Sunday sail with her boyfriend and sailing instructor, Ralph Mothes.

"It reached about 100 to 200 meters from us, then it disappeared under water and reappeared about 10 to 20 meters from the boat, but we didn't think we were on a collision course," she told msnbc.com.

The young Southern Right Whale was longer than their 10-meter yacht — most likely between 11 and 14 meters — Werner said.

"My boyfriend told me to go to the other side of the boat," she said, explaining that they thought it would dive under their vessel.

"All I heard him say was 'Oh sh*&,' and I saw the whale come out of the water and crash against the mast of the boat.

"I ducked behind the coach house and my boyfriend ducked behind the steering wheel and we saw the mast crashing toward us and the whale slip back into the water," she said.

[Guest mustangdave]

LOL...when WHALES attack...11-14 meters...that's a big ass baby whale

[Oh Shoot]

Well, I'm sure it was just coincidence, the whale didn't "attack", was just breaching and the boat was in wrong place at right time.

There have been a number of yachts sunk through the years by whale collisions. One of the most famous ones was the Robertson family in 1972; their yacht was sunk in minutes by pod of killer whales.

- OS

[Guest db99wj]

Not really an attack or attach, but wrong place wrong time. Man, that would suck though. And to be caught on film is amazing.

[Guest drv2fst]

Where are our photoshop experts? We need to crop in an image of a fisherman on the boat reeling that one in.

[Guest jackdm3]

"Back home we gotta taximermy man gonna have a heart attack when he sees what we brung him!"

[Guest Bluemax]

"Back home we gotta taximermy man gonna have a heart attack when he sees what we brung him!"

" Farewell Lorna Doone, My Fair Spanish Lady"

"Farewell Lorna Doone, My Lady of Spain"

[Guest jackdm3]

Thanks! I never understood what he said. I was certain he said, "Fare well and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies ..." but that wouldn't be right. At all. Geographically.

Somebody look it up. I got dinner cookin'.

Edited July 22, 2010 by jackdm3

[Oh Shoot]

Thanks! I never understood what he said. I was certain he said, "Fare well and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies ..." but that wouldn't be right. At all. Geographically.

Somebody look it up. I got dinner cookin'.

It IS "farewell and adieu".

Lorna Doone is title character in 1860's novel. And she isn't Spanish.

- OS

[Guest jackdm3]

And I thought I was going deeeeef.

[Guest db99wj]

It IS "farewell and adieu".

Lorna Doone is title character in 1860's novel. And she isn't Spanish.

- OS

Nuh unh, they are cookies.