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Stop In the Name Of the Endangered Species Law: Put That Sea Turtle Back
By Sophie Cocke 02/27/2012
UPDATED 2/27/12 9:45 a.m.
It wasn’t a spectacle for the faint of heart.
A pack of 25 to 40 sharks charged after a distressed humpback whale in the waters off of the Big Island’s Kailua-Kona coast. It was the start of whale season, and trailing behind the sharks was a swarm of local boaters.
At some point during the two-hour pursuit, Porter Watson, a local resident and marine videographer, jumped into the water, drifting within a football field’s length of the whale while capturing footage of preying tiger sharks.
“I happened to drift into where the dead whale was lying with a shark feeding on one pectoral fin,” he told Civil Beat of the November 2006 incident. “The whale was lying on her side on the water.”
More: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/02/27/14961-stop-in-the-name-of-the-endangered-species-law-put-that-sea-turtle-back/
UPDATED 2/27/12 9:45 a.m.
It wasn’t a spectacle for the faint of heart.
A pack of 25 to 40 sharks charged after a distressed humpback whale in the waters off of the Big Island’s Kailua-Kona coast. It was the start of whale season, and trailing behind the sharks was a swarm of local boaters.
At some point during the two-hour pursuit, Porter Watson, a local resident and marine videographer, jumped into the water, drifting within a football field’s length of the whale while capturing footage of preying tiger sharks.
“I happened to drift into where the dead whale was lying with a shark feeding on one pectoral fin,” he told Civil Beat of the November 2006 incident. “The whale was lying on her side on the water.”
More: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/02/27/14961-stop-in-the-name-of-the-endangered-species-law-put-that-sea-turtle-back/