{"id":659225,"date":"2026-10-28T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659225\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:46:10","slug":"very-sad-development-dead-humpback-whale-spotted-in-area-of-b-c-ferries-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659225\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Very sad development&#8217;: Dead humpback whale spotted in area of B.C. Ferries collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A dead humpback whale has been spotted in the same area where a whale was struck by a B.C. Ferries vessel last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Ferry passengers felt a <a class=\"link-_o8iA html-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/b-c-ferries-strikes-humpback-whale-howe-sound-9.7386868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">collision with a whale on Oct. 18<\/a> while travelling on the Queen of Surrey between Langdale Terminal on the Sunshine Coast and Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) said the collision happened between Grace Point and Keats Island.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A whale seen blowing blood from its spout into the air after being struck by a ferry in Howe Sound.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793159169_534_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3103030303030303\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption-oOSXz\">Aspen Wing and her son watched as a humpback whale blew blood into the air after being struck by a ferry leaving the Langdale terminal on the Sunshine Coast on Oct. 18, 2026. (Submitted by Aspen Wing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A statement from B.C. Ferries said crew members spotted the dead whale on Monday and promptly reported it to DFO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a very sad development, particularly following the collision involving the Queen of Surrey on Oct. 18,&#8221; said Lillian Kim with B.C. Ferries. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dead whale floating\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793159170_159_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption-oOSXz\">A dead whale was found floating off Gambier Island, roughly 30 kilometres northwest of Vancouver. (Emily Ashton)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Jackie Hildering with the Marine Education and Research Society (MERS) said the dead humpback whale was seen on Monday evening near the Grace Islands; it had external injuries and no tail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A member of DFO&#8217;s marine mammal response team is working to confirm the dead whale&#8217;s identity to determine if it was the animal struck on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">B.C. Ferries said it doesn&#8217;t know if it is the same whale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;We continue to co-operate fully with DFO and will provide whatever information we can to support their assessment,&#8221; Kim said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-659225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}