| Vol. 14, No. 23 | Week of June 07, 2009 |
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Whale found on bow of oil tanker
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An oil tanker struck an endangered humpback whale and carried it on its bow into Port Valdez.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokeswoman Sheila McLean says crewmen June 1 on an escort vessel spotted the 40- to 50-foot whale on the bow of the tanker Kodiak as it docked.
Valdez residents say they can’t remember a similar incident in the 30 years that tankers have been pulling in to pick up oil from the trans-Alaska pipeline.
Officials say they don’t know if the whale was alive when it was struck by the ship.
Federal officials say it would be too expensive to send a team to determine how and when the whale died. They plan to tow the carcass to sea and sink it.
—The Associated Press
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