Last week a Yacht was wrecked off the South African coast after a 40-ton whale jumped from the waters and smashed down on top of a sailing instructors boat.
Sailing instructors Paloma Werner and Ralth Mothers were watching the Whale moving in the waters, admiring it, when it set a course for their vessel, the 32ft Intrepid.
Mr Mothes has been quoted “I thought, surely it can’t be on a collision course with us”
However it soon became apparent it was, then unexpectedly the young whale jumped out of the water landing on the boats deck all 35ft and 40-tons of it, smashing the Intrepids mast and damaging the engine cover.
Once landed the Whale thrashed around on the deck causing damage to the vessel, after a few minutes it rolled itself off the boat back into the water.
Fortunately the Intrepid has a steel hull, experts say that if it had been a fibre glass hull the whale would have smashed right through the hull sinking the boat. As it stands the whale has done an estimated £10,000 worth of damage to the boat.
Fortunately no one was hurt during the incident.
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