Whale dismasts yacht - investigation pending

9:25 PM Wed 21 Jul 2010 GMT

'Whale breaching beside the yacht, pictured just seconds before it crashed onto the yacht causing heaving damage - photo from Universal News And Sport' .

The advice to stay several hundred metres away from a whale took on new resonance after the latest incident in South African waters. The owners of a well known Cape Town Sailing Academy were dismasted this week by a whale who apparently didn't notice the yacht and breached virtually on top of them. Palomo Werner and Ralph Mothes were sailing off the South African coast on their yacht Intrepid when a whale, estimated by onlookers to weigh about 40 tonnes, crashed across their yacht, inflicting heavy damage to both the yacht and itself, and dismasting it. The couple will face ...

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