Cruise Line Sorry That Passengers Viewed Whale Hunt

July 16, 2023 Travel, Wildlife

A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of its ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered. Ambassador Cruise Lines confirmed on Thursday that the arrival of their ship Ambition in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands — located between Scotland, Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic — “coincided with the culmination of a hunt of 40+ pilot whales in the port area,” according to the cruise line.

“We were incredibly disappointed that this hunt occurred at the time that our ship was in port. We strongly object to this outdated practice, and have been working with our partner, ORCA, a charity dedicated to studying and protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises in UK and European waters, to encourage change since 2021,” Ambassador said following the arrival of their ship in the Torshavn port area on the southern part of the main island.

Read the full article. The Faroe Islands, population 54,000, are an autonomous region of Denmark. The screenshot above is from a 2015 Motherboard documentary about the whale hunts. Pilot whales belong to the genus that includes dolphins and orcas.

A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of their ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered. https://t.co/ASEdCBy554

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