Paloma Werner and Ralph Mothes were sailing in the waters off Cape Town, South Africa this past week and had an encounter with a whale that they will not soon forget. Captured in photos and on video, the whale landed on the boat, damaging its steel mast and cabin.
CBS News: "I just saw this huge thing come out of the water, and the mast crashed ... I ducked, I think Paloma ducked," the pleasure boater told CBS News, "the mast missed me by a few inches." The Southern Right Whales migrate from the waters around Antarctica to the tip of South Africa every year to breed and feed. Ralph and Paloma just happened to be in the way.
MSNBC: 'I don't think it will hit us it is still very far away, we will just keep going.' And before you knew it, the next thing, there it was, and that photograph that was taken, somebody on the catamaran behind us, it was on a collision course."Mothes has denied media reports that they were doing anything to harass the whale.
Photo: A 40-ton whale flipped into the air and smashed the mast of a 33-foot boat off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, July 18, 2010. (Paloma Werner via CBS.com)
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