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fattehboiJul 21, 2010
wow what an incredible picture!
themazzterJul 21, 2010
Can't be real though. It's gotta be shopped. No mention of any other boats or witnesses in the article.
navicertsJul 21, 2010
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Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
There's another article over at dailymail that says that a tourist on a sightseeing boat nearby took the photos.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296474/Spot-endangered-species-yacht-trip-turns-modern-day-Moby-Dick-southern-right-whale-lands-deck-couple.html
mrsaundercookJul 22, 2010
facts ftw.
skeeordyeJul 22, 2010
at first i thought it was shopped, then i saw this and went =~0
bryceman111Jul 21, 2010
Wow, that's a low price!
fattehboiJul 21, 2010
lmao i dugg you up cause I knew someone would write that
bryceman111Jul 21, 2010
Thanks, haha.
zardayJul 21, 2010
I don't see how the tourist could've realized what was happening and snapped a shot that fast that caught the whale in mid-air. Must've been shear luck that a whale jumped up right as she was hitting the button.
nerysJul 21, 2010
ahh not really if you see a whale your going to be preparing to capture the whale when it breeches. An "average" photographer with "ok" fingers and based on how fast something like that could rise out of the water that picture is "about right" for the average person's reaction time.
I shoot rockets quite a lot - this thing moves very SLOW compared to the rockets I shoot and I have no trouble capturing them 2 feet off the pad.
it is a VERY cool shot. a very lucky shot that he happened to be waiting for a whale picture opportunity and did not flub it when the whale did something odd.
Very cool.
blackinthmiddleJul 21, 2010
@zarday, Nerys
I've done whale watching in Cape Cod. The shooter wasn't lucky. And s/he probably didn't do too much in the way of timing things. More than likely, the shooter had a camera that could take multiple shots per second. It's the only way to get any decent shots while whale watching. I learned this the hard way the first time I went to Cape Cod. I got 30 pictures of nothing but water because my camera was too damn slow!
zardayJul 21, 2010
@black
good point
kook321Jul 21, 2010
i wonder who took the picture
dollar0dot02Jul 22, 2010
dolphin
switch351Jul 21, 2010
To bad you can't see their faces. Had to be the biggest "Oh s**t!!!" of all time
kazbotJul 21, 2010
Dominated
sanmanJul 21, 2010
a quickie
synthoidJul 21, 2010
EPIC MASSIVE PWNAGE!
Closed AccountJul 22, 2010
This looks like the work of Hanc**k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2NUVvt4R3g
muleskinnerJul 21, 2010
I'm honestly surprised that boat could take a direct hit like that and still stay floating. Props to the builder.
navicertsJul 21, 2010
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fuzedJul 21, 2010
Blue Steel?
doctechnicalJul 21, 2010
Steel floats? Who knew?
mikefromamericaJul 21, 2010
Bernoulli knew.
mikefromamericaJul 21, 2010
Archimedes knew.
fall0ut17Jul 21, 2010
@doctechnical
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier
stormtrooprJul 21, 2010
f**king buoyancy. How does it work?
theosterJul 21, 2010
i think a glass boat could probably take it too. and i dont think the mast would snap like that. i used to work on a towboat in florida and i've seen a fair bit of damage. my parents 37 foot sailboat went through the Storm of the Century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century) and it's a standard fiberglass hull. and even having double-tied it in the slip with 3/4" line it ended up smashing into the docks (due to the massive height difference in the storm surge) for the better part of 6 hours. the main piece of dock it was hitting was a 4x12 support beam - and hitting it directly on end. the boat was fine with not a scratch on it and the 4x12 looked like a chewed up cigar butt (the dock planks were completely ripped off and lost to the drink :)
i've also seen a sailboat lose power in a 6knot riptide and get sucked under a bridge. the mast hit about 2/3 of the way up and the boat just held - one of his stanchions got bent out of shape and had to be replaced, but that was all.
to have a whale jump onto a boat and do that kind of damage seems implausible. the boat would be "squirted" to the side with minimal damage. unless the whale was flying out of the sky (H2G2?) and there was something to keep the boat stationary, i doubt this happened.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
tokeliJul 21, 2010
FORTY TON WHALE.
FORTY... TON... WHALE.
sipsyrupJul 21, 2010
The ship was aptly named Intrepid.
blackinthmiddleJul 21, 2010
Well remember, the boat is on water. When the whale landed on it, I'm guessing that it just pushed it underwater for a sec and then it popped back up with the whale on it.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
saranagatiJul 22, 2010
i'm thinking this article is full of s**t. A cubic foot of sea water is about 64.1 lbs. Even if the boat itself had no weight to it, a 330 cubic foot boat(meaning the boat was 33 cubic feet the entire height and 10 feet tall) could only support 20.5 tons of weight before being completely submerged. That means the whale would have had twice the weight needed to sink the boat. Then on top of that the boat itself is going to weigh probably minimum of 3 tons (really not sure how much boats weigh) which means this whale was WAY too heavy to kick it on the yacht and have martinis with the crew.
thegreenspanputJul 21, 2010
f**king assh**e whale
djm91Jul 21, 2010
yeah really, just f**kin jumping and swimming where ever the f**k it wants..
tgc1Jul 21, 2010
assh**e boat. They were in the way. We're in his territory.
davidhierJul 21, 2010
It can feel free to petition.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
Life's short troll hard.
kpne1homeJul 21, 2010
F**K YOU DOLPHIN. F**K YOU WHALE
fattehboiJul 21, 2010
FOOKA YOU WHARE AND DOLPHRIN
universalpantsJul 21, 2010
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF195-The_Pacific_Council.jpg
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
He's just pissed about the oil and corexit.
rainemakerJul 21, 2010
I'm thinking that picture is an "artists recreation" of what it would look like, yeah? Or how in the hell did someone time that?
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
Check out the other two images. I don't think so.
rainemakerJul 21, 2010
Duh, I'm an idiot. I didn't even see those.
drunkinbdaJul 21, 2010
how does anyone ever get a photo of a breaching what? timing, or video
nerysJul 21, 2010
they are 40 tons they don't move that fast. you could stand their with a disposable film camera and catch that shot if... you were whale watching which this location is known for.
if you see a whale 100meters off the boat your going to be pointing and ready waiting for it to breech again so you can get a picture.
at the very slow speed this thing would have moved at (relative to how fast your finger is) its not unheard of or even remotely difficult to catch a shot like this. In fact I suspect he was using a simple camera cause any camera I have would have let me catch a lot more than one picture of that whale in the air like that :-)
catching shots like this is NOT about speed you are way way faster than that whale. whats difficult is HAPPENING to be close enough that you can even get a picture.
that is the lucky part here.
blackinthmiddleJul 21, 2010
@Nerys
No, you'd never catch that shot with a disposable camera.
@drunkinbda
You catch that shot with a camera that can take multiple shots per second. The nikon D90 http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond90/ can take 4.5 shots per second. Anyone who's gone whale watching with an ordinary point and shoot knows that the chances of getting a good shot are next to zero.
zardayJul 21, 2010
Good point, if there's a video I'd sure like to see it.
TrustMeSuckaJul 21, 2010
That black thing coming out of the water isn't a whale. It's Lexington Steele or Mandingo's penis.
tnoyJul 21, 2010
Consumer-grade DLSRs these days take pictures at 3-5fps.
ace429kJul 21, 2010
Thats a whale of a tale.
evange106Jul 21, 2010
33ft is a small boat.
hydroplaneJul 21, 2010
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
my boat is 666' long its red... i named it red as the devils dick
mca2142Jul 21, 2010
I take it the boat people were... Japanese?
kiiwiiJul 22, 2010
They're protecting themselves a lot better than the Sea Shepard crew are.
spoodaJul 21, 2010
Onion?
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
No thank you.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
bloomin?
IllBeBackJul 22, 2010
Yes, please.
frequentflyerJul 21, 2010
shopped?
vicariismJul 21, 2010
Translation of Stewart the Whale's 'lob-tailing' communication with other whales, just before this happened.
"Look what I can do!"
doctechnicalJul 21, 2010
"Hold my beer."
nerysJul 21, 2010
more like HEY Watch this
Splash!
one1plus1oneJul 22, 2010
"Greatings human life forms. If I can somehow just get your attention. I may look like a dumb whale, but while swimming around lately, I've been having these thoughts you see. I believe that the universe is an 11 dimensional construct, that is holographically projected upon a 5 dimensional plane, which if you follow this formula would allow you to unify all the forces of nature, into a single equation, in which C-cubed represents the velocity of light, while Yt describes the folding of an 11 dimensional..."
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
Simpson's did it.
i4ybridJul 21, 2010
F**K YOU WHARE AND F**K YOU DORPHIN
maxxellJul 21, 2010
F!ck you dolphin and f!ck you whale!
maxxellJul 21, 2010
Wow. No southpark fans on Digg today?
wanderonJul 21, 2010
1. don't censor yourself
2. you were late by a couple seconds
3. needs more capslock
maxxellJul 23, 2010
I concede. You win this time, i4ybrid. f**k!
(better?)
mouchezdmJul 21, 2010
I bet there was an OMG moment right there
mrjufrowJul 21, 2010
No. Findng an old best friend is an OMG moment. Having a whale plow through your boat is a HOLY f**kING s**t moment.
bosskeyJul 22, 2010
More like a FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
moment
aaronpdxJul 21, 2010
Not again...
tehnicoJul 21, 2010
/Marvin
Since no body seems to get it.
aaronpdxJul 21, 2010
Actually, /Agrajag... but maybe the reference was too slight to be caught. And it's slightly incorrect, as it was actually a bowl of petunias.
one1plus1oneJul 22, 2010
I hate it when that happens. Everytime I take out my friggin Yacht (named Lucky-Lady-7) Moby-Dick decides to pop up and say hello all over the friggin Lucky-Lady's deck.
drdragunJul 21, 2010
O s**t that's a Right Whale I think; they are seriously endangered. I think the northern right whale only has ~100 breeding females left on earth.
supercouilleJul 21, 2010
dude it hapened in south africa... its not northern
insomniacalJul 21, 2010
Was it contemplating the meaning of its existence?
foxifiednutbarJul 21, 2010
Thank God for Pittsburgh...
theghoulJul 21, 2010
Thats some nightmare fuel there.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
Omg did the whale break the boat?
They should take the whale home as a pet :D
spinky342Jul 22, 2010
RTFA.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
http://imgur.com/H9Aid.jpg
mxm111Jul 21, 2010
"Can I haz chizburger?" would be funnier, I think.
fattehboiJul 21, 2010
nope.
acegidJul 21, 2010
"I can taste oil in the water already. Get me the f**k outta here!"
antz0rzJul 21, 2010
"and THATS for the BP oil spill! Jackasses!"
goatroperJul 21, 2010
Free Willy 10: Willy's Revenge
bry2Jul 21, 2010
It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a Sperm Whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet and since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity. This is what it thought, as it fell:
"Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!"
regfreeJul 21, 2010
So long! Sperm Whale :(
alexnisJul 21, 2010Submitter
Make sure you have your towel with you.
dasbaconJul 21, 2010
thud.
felidaeusJul 21, 2010
"Not again"
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
Must be some good s**t you're smoking there
delihoundJul 22, 2010
It's from of the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" book series by Douglas Adams
Closed AccountJul 22, 2010
It appears that I lack the sense of judgment or the will power to Google it up
bonestampJul 21, 2010
"What does this meeeaaaaaan?"
nochJul 21, 2010
OH, ITS THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!!!!
waxmahcraxJul 21, 2010
the sheer weight of the thing was huge.... thats what she said
...literally.
cupofkonaJul 21, 2010
Whale of a tale..obvious...
tehnicoJul 21, 2010
Was there a bowl of petunias there too?
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
Whale Wars: s**t Just Got Real
hardataqJul 21, 2010
Except in this case, the whale is actually doing something. On the show, the only whale anyone actually risks their neck for is that mouth-breathing captain.
Remember when he pretended to get shot, and his badge somehow miraculously stopped the bullet a la Clint Eastwood? Whales don't even want him on their side.
heresy_fnordJul 21, 2010
Did they died?
simplypiratesJul 21, 2010
Dugg simply for "whale crier".
pakobedejoJul 21, 2010
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liam2012Jul 21, 2010
Yachting: It's all fun and games until a whale tries to penetrate your port.
plaguebornJul 21, 2010
They're finally fighting back.
nakedjediJul 21, 2010
Call me Ishmael. Some days ago - never mind how long precisely a crazy mother f**ker of a whale jumped on my $500, 000 yacht and nearly killed my wife and I.
vashth3stampedeJul 21, 2010
okay, Ishmael
bosskeyJul 22, 2010
Surely he picked the wrong week to go sailing
geisterJul 21, 2010
my wife and me, no excuse for poor grammar
sniperJul 21, 2010
Um, what?
leif777Jul 21, 2010
How the hell did someone even get a shot of that?...
sweetdaddydJul 21, 2010
Further, how did they weigh the whale?
stuffblockJul 22, 2010
camera?
soc7Jul 21, 2010
Mission accomplished. Get off my water!
doctechnicalJul 21, 2010
That's the last time that whale will ever try to high-five a yacht.
jabbrwockeyJul 21, 2010
FTA: "Ralph Mothes, 59, and Paloma Werner, 50, were helpless as the beast thrashed around on their 33ft vessel before slipping back into the water."
Heck yes!
Ever since I was a kid and saw whales jumping I've been waiting for this to happen.
gearupandplayJul 21, 2010
talk about a luck photo opportunity, my photo opportunities are like my cat in a funny pose...geesh!
k1080Jul 21, 2010
You just messed up part of my message, I do not like to repeat any one eles' reply. (I like being unique)! It means I like your reply and if I could have dugged you more than once-I would have, and who knows I just might "digg" you again. You don't look the same as everyone else!
Ke11inJul 21, 2010
Poor thing was tired of swimming.
illackyJul 21, 2010
Revenge!
http://illacky.tumblr.com/post/840918526/bpelbowdrop
nerysJul 21, 2010
oh thats good!
captain4004Jul 21, 2010
Well what?!!!!!