Whack-a-whale

[Taro Toporific]

(Beetle bad --- Whacks whale)


[SIZE="3"]Jet ferry apparently hits whale, some passengers injured [/SIZE]
Kyodo, March 05, 2006
NAGASAKI---A jet ferry collided with an object believed to have been a whale on Sunday off Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, slightly injuring some passengers, Japan Coast Guard officials said.
A total of 90 passengers and seven crew members were on the 162-ton Beetle No. 3...more....

[Greji]

Wanted for questioning:

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[SIZE="3"]Jet ferry apparently hits whale, some passengers injured [/SIZE]
Kyodo, March 05, 2006
NAGASAKI---A jet ferry collided with an object believed to have been a whale on Sunday off Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, slightly injuring some passengers, Japan Coast Guard officials said.
A total of 90 passengers and seven crew members were on the 162-ton Beetle No. 3...more....

How do you spell submarine?

[Taro Toporific]

How do you spell submarine?

Of course, that "whale" could be one these funky North Korean subs that are always breaking down.

Or better yet. the whale was a high-speed semi-submersible craft like this:
[INDENT]
MARITIME SOF
This SILC is a high-speed semi-submersible craft that can be used to infiltrate North Korean Special Forces. North Korea has adapted technology to focus on invading the ROK]

[Taro Toporific]

UPDATE:
Carcass of whale, believed to have hit jet ferry, found off Tottori
Crisscross, Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 12:16 EST
TOTTORI----A dead whale was found drifting about 15 kilometers off the coast of Fushino in Tottori Prefecture on Tuesday morning, the Japan Coast Guard said. The 5-meter-long carcass, which Coast Guard officials said looked like a beaked whale, had a gash in it. [url=http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/366198"]...more...with pix[/url]

[Taro Toporific]

UPDATE:

One more time....
Jet ferry hits whale off Tsushima
Crisscross - News - Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 06:00 EST
FUKUOKA ----A jet ferry collided with an animal believed to have been a whale on Friday off Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan Coast Guard officials said.
None of the 120 passengers and seven crew members aboard the 162-ton Beetle 218 was hurt...more...

[Taro Toporific]

One more time....

[SIZE="5"]KAMIKAZE WHALES! [/SIZE]

Ferry again hits whale off Kyushu
Crisscross - News -Monday, March 20, 2006 at 06:58 EST
FUKUOKA --- A ferry again hit a sea animal believed to be a whale during operations Sunday in the sea off Kyushu but nobody aboard was injured, the ship's operator said. It is the fourth incident this year of a collision between a ferry linking Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Busan, South Korea, and an animal believed to be a whale. "...more...

[Greji]

[SIZE="5"]KAMIKAZE WHALES! [/SIZE]

Ferry again hits whale off Kyushu
Crisscross - News -Monday, March 20, 2006 at 06:58 EST
FUKUOKA ---It is the fourth incident this year of a collision between a ferry linking Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Busan, South Korea,

They've probably sunk the entire NK submarine force without a shot!

[gomichild]

Quick! Someone stick some laser beams onto them!

(Stuff the sharks)

[kurohinge1]

Japan-S Korea high-speed ships troubled by whales

... Experts' opinions vary on the cause of the accidents.

Some say whales collide with ships when they rapidly surface from deep water, while others say female whales raising calves have trouble avoiding fast-moving ships.

Ship operators are trying hard to pinpoint the cause. Some experts say, however, accidents of this kind are unavoidable to some extent.

The service jointly run by Japan's Kyushu Railway Co and South Korea's Miraejet Co normally provides five round trips a day. Their "Jetfoil" passenger vessels are powered by hydrofoils in front and back that enable the ships to travel at more than 80 kilometers per hour while floating about 2 meters above the surface of the water.

According to JR Kyushu, the company's high-speed ships have had six collisions since December 2004, with four of them reported this year. Some passengers were injured, while three of its four hydrofoil ships suffered damage, including to their turbines.

Teruyoshi Onoda, a board director at JR Kyushu, said the accidents have not affected the number of passengers but have cost about 500 million yen in repairs.

In South Korea, a high-speed boat named "Kobee" was hit by a whale-related accident in which about 30 people were injured.

Tsutomu Tamura, who heads the Ecosystem Section at the Institute of Cetacean Research, said beaked whales, including Baird's beaked whales, feed deep in the sea and may have failed to go round the boats when they rapidly surfaced.

Akira Takemura, a professor at the Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University, focuses on the fact that collisions have frequently occurred in the spring.

"Spring is the time when humpback whales that have raised their calves in waters near Okinawa and Taiwan travel north through Tsushima Strait," he said.

"It is possible that humpback whales traveling with calves, which move relatively slowly, may have collided with the boats," Takemura said.

JR Kyushu has so far invested 40 million yen to equip its fleet with a special device that emits acoustic waves disliked by whales. But Onoda expressed doubt about its effectiveness ... more

As for the acoustic waves, I suggest Enka.

Otherwise, the only other solution I can think of would be to declare any whales on the ferry route to be "protected species".
That should ensure that a pack of Japanese "scientific whaling" ships quickly appear on the horizon to take the whales away ... for science.

[homesweethome]

[quote="kurohinge1"]Japan-S Korea high-speed ships troubled by whales



As for the acoustic waves, I suggest Enka.

Otherwise, the only other solution I can think of would be to declare any whales on the ferry route to be "protected species".
That should ensure that a pack of Japanese "scientific whaling" ships quickly appear on the horizon to take the whales away ... for science.

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Yes, Enka will drive anything away!

As for the 'solution' it will obviously be done this way. Remove the obsticle before it causes any economic damage.

The J Navy will be commissioned to practice torpedo launch tests on any unwanted 'garbage' obstructing the sea lanes.

At least it will give them something to do.

[Taro Toporific]

High-speed ferry hits unidentified object off Kagoshima, 49 injured
KAGOSHIMA, Japan, April 9_(Kyodo) _ A high-speed ferry collided with an unidentified object in waters off the city of Kagoshima on Sunday evening, leaving 49 people injured, the Japan Coast Guard said.
The ferry was heading from Yaku Island to Kagoshima port when the incident occurred shortly after 6 p.m., the coast guard said.
Coast guard officials said the ferry was heading toward Kagoshima port on its own power after the incident.

Of course, that "object" could be one these funky North Korean subs that are always breaking down.

[Taro Toporific]

Hmmm, maybe the real story is coming out....

Mass whale deaths tied to U.S. Navy sonar
Science & Nature : Features : The Daily Yomiuri, April 18, 2006
The CRS report comes amid a growing number of reports of whales colliding with ships. In the latest incident, more than 100 people were injured Sunday when a hydrofoil collided with an object believed to be a whale off Cape Sata in Kagoshima Prefecture.....
.....Although the U.S. Navy has limited the deployment of active sonar in most oceans out of environmental concern since 2003, its use has increased in the seas surrounding Japan as U.S. forces are intensifying surveillance of China's military activities.
"It's highly probable that even Sunday's collision was caused by a whale deafened by active sonar noise," said Tadasu Yamada, a sea mammal expert of the National Science Museum.
But Prof. Akira Takemura of Nagasaki University was skeptical of the theory. "A whale, even if its hearing is damaged, can still detect and avoid an approaching ship by deploying other senses, such as feeling the water pressure on its skin," he said.

[Taro Toporific]

Japan-S. Korea ferry hits object, possibly whale, woman killed
Friday April 13, 11:30 AM, Kyodo--- A South Korean woman died and 99 others injured when a high-speed ferry carrying about 200 people from the southwestern Japan port of Hakata to the South Korean port of Busan collided with an unidentified floating object, possibly a whale, Thursday evening, South Korean maritime police said Friday.....

[Taro Toporific]

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Nearly 100 injured in Japan ferry collision
channelnewsasia.com | 09 Mar 2019 08:47PM
TOKYO: At least 87 passengers in a high speed ferry were injured in an apparent collision with a marine animal in the sea of Japan on Saturday (Mar 9), coastguards and media said.
Five people were seriously injured in the accident, which occurred just before the hydrofoil was due to arrive on Sado island after a short trip from the mainland, the Japan Coast Guard said.
It is likely the ferry hit a whale, as both humpbacks and minkes are often found in the area...more...


Also:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47509017

[Russell]

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Nearly 100 injured in Japan ferry collision
channelnewsasia.com | 09 Mar 2019 08:47PM
TOKYO: At least 87 passengers in a high speed ferry were injured in an apparent collision with a marine animal in the sea of Japan on Saturday (Mar 9), coastguards and media said.
Five people were seriously injured in the accident, which occurred just before the hydrofoil was due to arrive on Sado island after a short trip from the mainland, the Japan Coast Guard said.
It is likely the ferry hit a whale, as both humpbacks and minkes are often found in the area...more...


Also:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47509017

No mention of the whale's injuries...

[matsuki]

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Nearly 100 injured in Japan ferry collision
channelnewsasia.com | 09 Mar 2019 08:47PM
TOKYO: At least 87 passengers in a high speed ferry were injured in an apparent collision with a marine animal in the sea of Japan on Saturday (Mar 9), coastguards and media said.
Five people were seriously injured in the accident, which occurred just before the hydrofoil was due to arrive on Sado island after a short trip from the mainland, the Japan Coast Guard said.
It is likely the ferry hit a whale, as both humpbacks and minkes are often found in the area...more...


Also:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47509017

No mention of the whale's injuries...

#triggered #whalelivesmatter