Aw! Here’s some sad news.
Pilots flying over shallow water near the coast of the Hawaiian island Kauai spotted an injured humpback whale on Monday.
Reports say the whale has a broken back probably as a result of being struck by a large ship or boat.
Flight instructor Gerry Charlebois, who snapped the picture above, said:
“He wasn’t moving his fluke and was just staying near the surface and sort of limping down the coast. It’s kind of sad to see a full adult whale in that condition. … It’s definitely something he’s not recovering from.”
Aww! Poor whale!
Charlebois continued to describe the the disturbing sight, saying:
“It was freaky. The whale was bent in half. Obviously some kind of blunt force trauma on the side. The poor guy was in trouble.”
Even sadder is that there is no established method for euthanizing a large whale and large whales tend to die slowly.
The most likely scenario for this whale’s future is sinking to the bottom of the ocean until decomposition gases make it float to the surface, where the corpse will attract large numbers of hungry sharks.
Gross!
“You don’t want to be snorkeling around there. You don’t want to be in that neighborhood,” Charlebois added.
We’ll take his advice.
[Image via CNN.]
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