girlzillla Posted September 28, 2004 #1 Share Posted September 28, 2004 anyone see this story? Poor whale. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20040928/od_nm/whale_dc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toto2Kansas Posted September 28, 2004 #2 Share Posted September 28, 2004 Our ship hit a whale while on an Alaskan Cruise once. That was a huge thud felt by almost everyone on the ship. I hear it happens more often then we realize. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanafan Posted September 28, 2004 #3 Share Posted September 28, 2004 60 feet long! I dont know if that is big, or small for a whale--but looking up at my 20 ft ceilings---and figuring 3 times that........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweetressie Posted September 28, 2004 #4 Share Posted September 28, 2004 We were in cabin 3004, which is three cabins from the bow of the ship, and we never heard or felt anything out of the ordinary in the time period mentioned in the news article. The discovery of the whale and its eventual removal was the hot topic in St. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanafan Posted September 28, 2004 #5 Share Posted September 28, 2004 We were in cabin 3004, which is three cabins from the bow of the ship, and we never heard or felt anything out of the ordinary in the time period mentioned in the news article. The discovery of the whale and its eventual removal was the hot topic in St. John. Are you totally bummed to be back to the day to day routine? Time to book another cruise! hehe I am looking forward to the Jewel in February. Hope you enjoyed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSSkipper Posted September 28, 2004 #6 Share Posted September 28, 2004 I am booked on the Jewel too, but not til May!:( Seems so far away!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophie Posted September 28, 2004 #7 Share Posted September 28, 2004 I heard this story about the whale on the radio this morning. Do they often swim in front of the ship like dolphins do? Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bUU Posted September 29, 2004 #8 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Well dolphins swim with the ship -- not cross the ship's path -- don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophie Posted September 29, 2004 #9 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Well dolphins swim with the ship -- not cross the ship's path -- don't they?I've seen them swim just ahead of the bow. Amazing how they can do that and not be hit. Well, obviously they do sometimes, don't they? I would assume a huge whale would not be able to swim as fast and could easily get hit by the ships bow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bUU Posted September 29, 2004 #10 Share Posted September 29, 2004 I dunno... I don't believe whales and dolphins are all that similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted September 29, 2004 #11 Share Posted September 29, 2004 It depends on the type of whale you are talking about. Dolphins and Orcas are related as I remember it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodml Posted September 29, 2004 #12 Share Posted September 29, 2004 We were in cabin 3004, which is three cabins from the bow of the ship, and we never heard or felt anything out of the ordinary in the time period mentioned in the news article. The discovery of the whale and its eventual removal was the hot topic in St. John.Sorry to take this thread a wee bit off topic for a moment but...Sweetressie we also have a forward cabin booked on the Jewel this coming December although on a higher deck. Did you mind being that far forward? Any thoughts? Also, I've read quite a bit about the food on the Jewel being 'just ok'. What did you think? And then back to the topic...very sad about the whale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aprille Posted September 29, 2004 #13 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Impaled on the ship's bow?!?! That must have been a sight coming in to port. :eek: Poor whale. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bUU Posted September 29, 2004 #14 Share Posted September 29, 2004 It depends on the type of whale you are talking about. Dolphins and Orcas are related as I remember it.Interesting. I looked into it further. Whales and Dolphins are in completely different sub-orders of Order Cetacea. However, some of the animals we call whales are actually dolphins, specifically killer whales (of various genus) and the pilot whale. So in this case, it was a finback whale, which is definitely a whale, not a dolphin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweetressie Posted September 29, 2004 #15 Share Posted September 29, 2004 We have had 2 cruises with Celebrity and 2 Cruises with RCI. IMHO Celebrity's food was always excellent while Royal's food was sometimes very good and other times excellent. Not very much to choose from, except that the variety on Celebrity was better. Lower deck, close to bow has no advantage at all and many, many downsides. It was a ship area we had not been located on prior. Will not do it again, as it was extremely scary during two nights of very rough, hurricane like weather. Other people who were in higher deck, forward cabins were not affected nearly as much. I'm sure you will enjoy the Jewel. It is a beautiful ship and its staff are capable and willing to serve and please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L2J Posted September 29, 2004 #16 Share Posted September 29, 2004 We were in cabin 3004, which is three cabins from the bow of the ship, and we never heard or felt anything out of the ordinary in the time period mentioned in the news article. The discovery of the whale and its eventual removal was the hot topic in St. John. The article didn't give a specific time period. It said "up to two days" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodml Posted September 29, 2004 #17 Share Posted September 29, 2004 We have had 2 cruises with Celebrity and 2 Cruises with RCI. IMHO Celebrity's food was always excellent while Royal's food was sometimes very good and other times excellent. Not very much to choose from, except that the variety on Celebrity was better. Lower deck, close to bow has no advantage at all and many, many downsides. It was a ship area we had not been located on prior. Will not do it again, as it was extremely scary during two nights of very rough, hurricane like weather. Other people who were in higher deck, forward cabins were not affected nearly as much. I'm sure you will enjoy the Jewel. It is a beautiful ship and its staff are capable and willing to serve and please. Thanks, sweetressie. We've got deck 9 and forward was not my first choice but we had to go up there to get 2 balconies and 1 inside across from them. Mind you we were about 6 cabins from the front on the Victory last year and it was fine. Not worried about it - just curious about your impressions. I'm definitely hoping for calmer seas in December than they are right now (!!) although we did sail thru a tropical storm the last time we cruised in Dec so we'll see. We haven't had a bad cruise yet so I know we'll have a great time no matter what. Thanks again and if you get the time please post a review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imsulin Posted September 29, 2004 #18 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Kingdon, Phylum, CLASS, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Just something I remembered from high school Biology. Back in the Jurassic era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmary Posted September 29, 2004 #19 Share Posted September 29, 2004 We were on the ship and didn't feel anything. The Captain announced later that the whale was most probably dead when the ship hit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle gueule Posted September 29, 2004 #20 Share Posted September 29, 2004 See more pictures: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=84777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted September 29, 2004 #21 Share Posted September 29, 2004 You didn't really think the captain would make an announcement something along the lines of.... It looks like we speared a whale last night and knocked the stuffings out of the poor critter.... did you?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle gueule Posted September 29, 2004 #22 Share Posted September 29, 2004 He said (Captain), according to annonce to all passengers at dinner time 6:30PM or 18h30, what's happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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