Oman Fishing 2022
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Wow full on. Did you see the whale?
Glad to hear you fared better than the poor guys in this painting by Charles Sidney Raleigh.
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Very glad you are ok and about to get out there again!
Any idea what kind of injuries/severity the humpback takes after a hit like this?
Look forward to your upcoming GT pics!
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I doubt whether we were targetted, we were cruising at 30knots, I think it just surfaced as we crossed its path. I suspect it did not suffer, the Humpbacks here average about 15meters long and will be heavily protected by a layer of blubber.
We hit it with the skeg and not the propeller, so I guess it was like us being annoyed by a mosquito….
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Wow, that is a freak accident. Could have been thrown off the boat… Glad to hear you are OK!
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Should change your forum name to “Ahab”.
Needless to say, being woken this morning by a call from Giles at 07:30, with horrible connectivity, saying there had been a boat crash, was - well - bloody awful! He convinced me in a later call (when I could actually hear what he was saying) that he's okay. And the fact that he's been documenting his adventures leads me to believe that his mind (if not his body) is still functioning as well as can be expected! ::)
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But seriously, I consider myself to be supremely lucky. I get to do some very weird and wonderful shit, and I have a wife in @Madame Buttonfly who whilst not exactly ecstatic about me doing fucking stupid stuff with people half my age (not in itself a bad thing, but I do shit that I probably should have stopped doing decades ago), puts up with it, in good grace.
Nuff said
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Giles Padmore. Annoying both man and beast all over the world.
Indeed he is (both annoying and lucky to have me). But, funnily enough, I wouldn't have him any other way
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That's really nuts G and I am glad you are safe. I've always wondered about a breaching whale landing on a boat, never thought one would hammer a boat that someone I knew was on!
No, I’m pretty sure exploding whales are mostly funny.
TBF, it's an exploding whale carcass. It's not like some asshole shot an RPG at a whale; the sad part was that it beached and died. The funny parts for me were a) that someone thought this was a good idea, b) that they did it, c) that it resulted in what you'd expect, and d) the reporting itself–gets me every time. I think I watched it 100 times when I first saw it eons ago.
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@Giles How’s the fishing? You’re uncharacteristically quiet…hope you’re okay and having fun.
@goosehd - thanks for checking in. I was worried, after speaking on Sunday afternoon I didn't hear from Giles on Monday, but he was in touch a few times yesterday so I know he's fine. The connectivity at the fishing camp is obviously pretty unreliable, and on Monday night they overnighted on an island, way off the coast, with zero signal. He did admit that the experience of staying on the island was not one he wanted to repeat, he said he was too old (and I'm sure too used to his creature comforts) to sleep on sand in wet clothes!
So we may have to wait until the weekend when he's finished fishing to get more news of his adventures, let's hope we get some photos of fish…
