The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating after a person driving a jet ski struck a grey whale off Vancouver.
Witnesses along Vancouver’s seawall saw the collision unfold in the water near Siwash Rock in Stanley Park around 7:30 p.m. PT on Monday.
“It was coming at great speed in between the sailboats and the shoreline again,” Savage said. “The whale surfaced and the [jet ski] collided with the whale.”
He watched and said the person was “thrown” from the jet ski and heard him calling for help.
Doesn’t look intentional but the person was going way too fast.
Several witnesses claim he was going back and forth over and over again while the whale was surfacing and spouting, so he definitely saw that there was a whale there. Being extremely close to the whale was 100% intentional, and going way too fast was 100% intentional.
Did he hit it on purpose? No, probably not. But was every action that led to the collision intentional and avoidable? Absolutely.
DFO should throw the book at this asshole. Maximum every available consequence.