{"id":39,"date":"2005-03-08T07:26:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/boat-strikes-of-marine-animals\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T02:04:58","slug":"boat-strikes-of-marine-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/boat-strikes-of-marine-animals.html","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Boat Strikes of Marine Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boat strikes of marine animals are increasingly common, for obvious reasons. It is disappointing to observe a marine animal severely or mortally wounded by a collision with a boat. We have encountered several marine animals bearing unmistakable boat propeller scars:<\/p>\n

\"North<\/a><\/p>\n

North Pacific humpback whale showing extensive scarring, almost certainly from a boat propeller, on dorsal ridge.
\nImage ID: 05910<\/a>
\nSpecies: Humpback whale<\/a>, Megaptera novaeangliae<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Maui<\/a>, Hawaii<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

Ocean sunfish injured by boat prop with cleaner fishes, open ocean, Baja California.
\nImage ID: 06410<\/a>
\nSpecies: Ocean sunfish<\/a>, Mola mola<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

\"West<\/a><\/p>\n

West Indian manatee.
\nImage ID: 02651<\/a>
\nSpecies: West Indian manatee<\/a>, Trichechus manatus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Three Sisters Springs<\/a>, Crystal River<\/a>, Florida<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gray<\/a><\/p>\n

Gray whale dorsal aspect showing injury\/wound\/indentation likely caused by boat, Laguna San Ignacio.
\nImage ID: 06426<\/a>
\nSpecies: Gray whale<\/a>, Eschrichtius robustus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Ignacio Lagoon<\/a>, Baja California<\/a>, Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

See more boat strike and propeller scar photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keywords: propeller scar photo, boat strike, injury, photograph, boat collision.<\/p>\n

The humpback whale photograph was taken during Hawaii Whale Research Foundation<\/a> research activities conducted under provisions of NOAA \/ NMFS and State of Hawaii scientific research permits.<<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boat strikes of marine animals are increasingly common, for obvious reasons. It is disappointing to observe a marine animal severely or mortally wounded by a collision with a boat. We have encountered several marine animals bearing unmistakable boat propeller scars: North Pacific humpback whale showing extensive scarring, almost certainly from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,170,184,187],"tags":[241,276,278,330,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-39","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environmental-problems","8":"category-humpback-whale","9":"category-marine-life","10":"category-ocean-sunfish","11":"tag-fish","12":"tag-manatees","13":"tag-marine-mammals","14":"tag-underwater","15":"tag-whales"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11773,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/11773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}