Whale watching tour gets front-row seat to shark ‘aggressively’ eating carcass
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Guests aboard a Nova Scotia whale-watching tour boat got to see more than they likely anticipated when they witnessed a great white shark feasting on a floating whale carcass.
Guests aboard a Nova Scotia whale-watching tour boat got to see more than they probably anticipated when they witnessed a great white shark eating a floating whale carcass.
The great white was spotted last Tuesday in the Bay of Fundy about two miles offshore from Freeport, N.S.
Amanda Crocker, the first mate on MV Georgie Porgie with Freeport Whale & Seabird Tours, says she had never had an encounter quite like this in her 30 years on the job.
“I was in shock for that half second. I’m thinking, ‘Am I really seeing what I think I’m seeing?'” she recalled.
“I’ve never seen a great white shark before in the wild. I’ve only ever seen pictures and videos and things like that. So it was really exciting to get to see this.”
The tour company had first heard about a whale carcass floating in the bay the day earlier. Crocker explains that the news in itself was sad, because the whales that visit the area are ones they’ve come to know.
“It’s a sad thing to know that one of the whales of our population has passed away because the same whales come to our area every year for feeding and it’s the same ones every year,” she said.
“But when we went out there on Tuesday and we seen the whale, we decided to take a little bit closer look to see if we could see anything around it that might be feeding on it.”
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