If the Roman historian, Livy, was still in business, he’d definitely list this incident in his “prodigies of the year”–strange events, by which the gods communicated with man. But it took special priests to interpret the signs.
In the sea off Portsmouth, an angry whale attacked a fishing boat and, as you’ll see in the video, easily sank it. We don’t know what precipitated the attack. You can see the poor devils aboard the boat–what can they do? They’re sitting ducks.
I’d like to know what kind of whale it was. It’s a baleen whale: I can’t think of any of those who attack ships.
Earlier this year we saw killer whales attacking boats off Gibraltar. Now it’s baleen whales off Massachusetts. I find myself asking more often than I used to, Is God trying to tell us something?
I haven’t seen a news text that tells us how the fishermen made out.
UPDATE: The two guys on the boat jumped clear and were rescued (https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2024/07/23/whale-slams-boat-topples-boaters-rye-nh-coast/74515126007/). It’s possible the confrontation with the whale was an accident: the fishermen and the whale were going after the way prey, and they kind of… intersected. Once the boat was overturned, the whale swam away.
I’ve had the same thought. There’s no doubt in my mind that our Creator is not too pleased with the path humanity has chosen.
That is a whale of a story! And the whale won.