{"id":158175,"date":"2025-09-21T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:09:09","slug":"humpback-whale-midnight-dies-following-collision-with-bc-ferries-vessel-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158175\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale \u2018Midnight\u2019 dies following collision with BC Ferries vessel &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A humpback whale has died following a collision with the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bc-ferries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC Ferries<\/a> vessel \u201cNorthern Expedition.\u201d Researchers are conducting a necropsy to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The ferry crew reported the strike on Wednesday in Wright Sound,\u00a0 south of Prince Rupert.<\/p>\n<p>Local First Nations and researchers found the animal\u2019s body nearby on Thursday morning and towed it to an island, where it was identified as a male known by researchers as \u201cMidnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298209_554_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere this strike occurred is also a really critical vessel transit lane,\u201d Grace Baer, research and project manager at North Coast Cetacean Society, told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11436984\/renewing-mortgage-bank-of-canada-rate-cut\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758416949_762_BoC-Sept-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRenewing your mortgage? 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All commercial boats that go up the inside passage all come through this pinch point where, during the summer and fall, there is a huge number of humpbacks and fin whales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, BC Ferries said it takes its responsibility to marine life seriously and that bridge crews undergo Whales in our Waters training. The fleet also participates in the Whale Report Alert system.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Science and Tech<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A humpback whale has died following a collision with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23588,82676,45,49,48,295,82677],"class_list":{"0":"post-158175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bc-ferries","9":"tag-bc-ferries-whale-strikes","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-whale-strikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}