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Whale in the Thames
Has anyone seen this on Sky News? Poor bottle-nosed whale is swimming around the thames in central London. It was spotted in the river outside the Houses of Parliament. Seems it’s lost it’s bearings…! 😮
There’s another been spotted at Southend too!
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1209846,00.html
There is also a video of it on that webpage at the very bottom
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quote Marcella:Poor bottle-nosed whale is swimming around the thames in central London. It was spotted in the river outside the Houses of Parliament. Seems it’s lost it’s bearings…! 😮ye poor wee whale…..must have got lost, ive never seen a real whale 😕
nik
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quote Nicola McIntosh:ye poor wee whale…..must have got lost, ive never seen a real whale 😕nik
My Dad has a house down in Baja California, there is a lagoon close by where the Grey whales come every year. It’s pretty amazing. If you get a guide with a boat you can actually touch them. It’s a protected lagoon so you have to make sure you are with a liscensed guide. From my Dads porch you can see them swimming by in the ocean.
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sounds amazing marek, that would be amazing to have on your doorstep mate. 😀
poor whale though, i hate seeing this sorta thing. im a sucker for animals and the like…. specially in the minging thames? 😕
that said. im working in central london next month and cardif. anyone on he boards from there? :lol1:
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that sounds amazing Marek
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quote Marcella:that sounds amazing Marek
It’s alright. 😉
I’ll see if I can get a couple of pictures of them, I think I have them at home. The dolphins are pretty cool down there too. They will “play” with your boat if they feel like it. We had a group of three following us for about an hour one day. They like to go right in front of the boat, you think you are going to hit them but they always stay just far enough ahead.
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something i always think of as sad… i was in long beach LA many moons ago… as i mesed about on a boogy board, i heard screams of get out the water robert. followed by my cousins and brothers/sister running into water. once out we watched as a poor seal floated in on its side dead. 😕
it was covered in oil… far out in distance of skyline you coauld see the rigs breaking skyline. was a shame that such a beautiful place and sea creature could be spoiled by mans needs… 😕😮
OK. I’ve had too much wine… on a wee mission tonight i think :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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great stories folks….i am against the cull of whales…..not nice 🙁 that and turtles 😕 your dads place sounds great marek…..my friends are taking a year off to touring baja…..they are sending me piccies 😀
nik
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opps, forgot to mention… seal was floating on its side, Finn in the air… they thought it was a shark in shallow water 😮 :lol1:
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OK…. now your story makes sense rob! 😀
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quote Marcella:OK…. now your story makes sense rob! 😀
:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: 😳
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This was on our news tonight, They don’t expect it to survive much longer 🙁 if they can’t get it out to open water tonight
edit: I see the poor thing died. Obviously not well anyway, given it kept trying to beach himself.
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The poor whale didn’t make it then 🙁
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ye i just read that today too…………..real shame 🙁
nik
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Sad, but people do get a bit over emotional when nature confromts them.
many animals (humans included) die in many circumstances every day, we just dont see it.
It would have been far kinder to shoot the poor animal 3 days ago, or when it was first discovered.Sorry to get on the soap box, just a pity that some people dont show the same concern when humans are suffering..
Not meant as an insult or critism to anyone, just a comment.. we are all guilty of standing back and letting it happen..
Peter
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Partly agree with you Peter, however, could you imagine the reaction of the public if someone had have pulled the trigger!!
We all feel sad when something like this happens, and the £50k spent on the task was a small price to pay for the worldwide media coverage we got as a caring country.
Chris.
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I dont think the iraqis or afgahns will think we are a caring nation.
Save a whale but bomb people?Sorry not the time not the place, im off out now….
Peter
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Think you totally took that out of context Peter, I was referring to caring for the whale, as that is what the topic was about!!!
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Ok but before I really go out,
it wasnt out of context, you said that the media cover the uk got, as a caring nation, was worth the whatever cost.
I just pointed out that some may not think we are a caring nation.either way, we dont care about the hundreds if not thousands of whales that are killed every year, same as we do not care about the millions of humans that are killed and mamed every year, just a pity that we seem, or the media appears to, put more importance on an animal, than fellow humans.
again sorry, ignore me, I do rant a bit when “we” put animals in the “sympathy” frame. We can do that when we as humans stop killing each other.I stilll feel sorry for the whale, but nature takes its course.
Peter
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Good point.
Our nation gets upset and homes in on something that occurs in nature all the time – yet all the Human tragedys that are on going are ignored or glossed over.
I hope the Iraqi situation is resolved soon Nobby 😥
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I know what you say, but I have to disagree with the verbally challenged writer quoted in the internet page.
I am totally sick of hearing about one disaster after another on the news. People blowing up each other in the name of justice, greed and corruption ruling supreme, people expressing their views as right and caring little about other opinions.
The whale got so much attention because it looked like being a good news story. Not forgetting that most of those that lined the foreshore were people who had never seen a whale outside of captivity. Here was a creature that was at the mercy of man. And we should not be critical of anyone who attempts an humane act. There is not enough humanity in my opinion.
Yes we could have ignored it, let it beach itself on some sea shore to die a painfull death, being totally heartless to its suffering, or we could have shown some compassion to a creature that was in need of help.
I know I’d rather have my children showing interest in this type of story, than being gradually desensitised hearing about one nationality battling superiority over another, or people murdering one another in the name of their faith.
I’m sorry guys, a humankindness story will always get my attention over one of greed, corruption, zealots and mayhem.
rant over.
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😀 😀 😀 You’re right Shane, it was intended as a good news story.
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If I was Nobby I would’ve been pretty cheesed off at the amount of news coverage the whale got (which went on for a few days). Meanwhile his father in law remains a hostage in Iraq with no further news reports mentioning his continuing plight.
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quote Phill:If I was Nobby I would’ve been pretty cheesed off at the amount of news coverage the whale got (which went on for a few days). Meanwhile his father in law remains a hostage in Iraq with no further news reports mentioning his continuing plight.
There is a theory Phill, the more press these murderers get the more they’ll keep taking hostages to get more press.
Doesn’t help Nobby I know, but it just may help the ones that follow in his fathers steps….
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