Dead whale found on bow of cruise ship entering Alaska port

[n2doc]

Source: Miami Herald

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
A veterinary pathologist worked Monday to determine what killed a juvenile fin whale discovered on the bow of a cruise ship entering an Alaska port.

The cause of death was not immediately apparent for the endangered whale spotted just after 5 a.m. Sunday on the bulbous bow of the Zaandam, a Holland America Line cruise ship, as it prepared to dock in Seward.

The carcass was towed to a beach near Seward, a spokeswoman for the fisheries section of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Julie Speegle, said Monday.

The veterinary pathologist, Kathy Burek, began a necropsy Sunday night and planned to continue Monday, with armed NOAA Fisheries law enforcement officers standing guard against bears, Speegle said.



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[jberryhill]

1. Standing guard against bears?

Yeah, I'll take that job only if my co-worker runs slower than I do.

[applegrove]

2. This has happened in canada too. So sad.