Breaching whale crash-lands on sailboat
(CNN) -- A sailor has described her "miraculous" escape after a whale leapt out of the water and crash-landed on the deck of her boat off the coast of South Africa.
Paloma Werner, 50, of the Cape Town Sailing Academy, and her partner Ralph Mothes had been watching the whale from a distance in Table Bay, near Cape Town harbor, when it moved toward their 10-meter vessel and breached 20 meters away.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when that gets called into the insurance company, eh?
"Hello, I'm calling to report a claim.""Would this be home, auto, or other?""Other. It's a maritime policy for a boat""What is the nature of your claim?"
"A whale crushed my sailboat."[click]
Oddly enough, the boat did not suffer any frame damage, nor does it appear that the whale was permanently injured. The sailboat is going to need, and we quote from a reliable source, "a paintjob and a s**tload of screen doors".
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
That is all.
2 comments:
It's obvious what happened.
The whale got in an argument with another whale, who told him: "Why don't you go take a flying f*** at a cruising sailboat?"
I have my doubts about that story. I simply can't believe that anyone could be lucky enough to get a picture of it. And the picture that's been shown doesn't look genuine.
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