The boat number and driver were identified after social media posts about the very close call off Quadra Island drew widespread attention.
Jenefer Smalley and the 12 guests aboard her whale-watching boat held their collective breath as a speeding boater came within a few metres of colliding with a humpback whale last month.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada was notified of the incident, and this weekend the boat number and driver were identified after Smalley’s social media posts about the very close call drew widespread attention. Calls to DFO about the incident were not immediately returned on Monday. “I really thought this was going to be the first time I was going to see a full-on collision … it was that close,” said Smalley, who has been guiding in the area for eight years.
The society said in a social media post that others in Nanaimo were aware the whale was there. “Nanaimo is now one of the many areas on our coast where it should be anticipated that there will be humpbacks that could suddenly surface,” the society said in a statement. Smalley said humpbacks are present almost everywhere around the Salish Sea, with 20 of the whales around Quadra Island at any given time.
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