CRUISE LINE ISSUES APOLOGY AFTER WHALE WATCHING PASSENGERS HAD TO SEE MASSIVE WHALE SLAUGHTER
I’ve been whale watching once, and it was great fun. I was with friends visiting Cape Cod one summer, and going on a boat ride with other enthusiastic people to see whales was a highlight of that year. And we did see whales, and they were amazing. But this was a short fare of a couple hours, then back ashore. Yet there are cruises set up for just a bit more of a commitment of time and expense, such as Ambassador Cruise Lines. But the passengers on one such trip recently were horrified to see the whales their ship followed get butchered in a wholesale slaughter right in front of their eyes. It was so horrifying, the cruise line had to give an apology to its traumatized passengers.
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CRUISE SHIP “AMBITION” FOLLOWED DOZENS OF PILOT WHALES, BUT IT WAS A WHALE HUNT SLAUGHTER
The whale watching cruise was on the vessel Ambition had followed dozens of pilot whales into Torshavn in the Faroe Islands, which geographically is near Norway. But it turns out that the locals had driven all of these pilot whales there as part of a whale hunt. And clearly it was a successful hunt, as the picture shows pretty clearly just how much blood was involved in the slaughter. I can only imagine the scene, and don’t really wish to find any video to include of the proceedings. Sure, I understand that there are some communities that still do whale hunts as part of their tradition. But it just seems so pointless and cruel these days with modern technology.
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FOROE ISLANDS RESIDENTS HAVE HUNTED WHALES FOR 1,000 YEARS, AND WON’T EVER STOP
Well, and it’s just a simple fact that whales need protecting, regardless of whether their current numbers measure them as not being endangered. To make matters more awkward in this story is the fact that the Ambition whale watching cruise came about in a partnership with the charity, ORCA, which is dedicated to studying and protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises in European and UK waters. They’ve been trying to get more protections for these creatures since 2021. But the roughly 53,000 people in the Faroe Islands have been hunting whales in those waters for nearly 1,000 years and don’t seem interested in stopping the literal slaughter.
I’m just grateful I wasn’t a passenger who went from the joy of watching these beautiful creatures to the horror of seeing them butchered right before my horrified eyes.
