A man and three of his friends were involved in a dramatic rescue after his boat was sunk by a giant whale, leaving the group stranded in the Pacific Ocean.
What started as a sailing adventure for one man and three of his friends ended in a dramatic rescue after a giant whale sank his boat, leaving the group stranded in the Pacific Ocean for hours and with a tale that might just be stranger than fiction.
The impact was so severe that the boat's propeller was ruptured and the fiberglass around it shattered, sending the vessel into the ocean. He said he sent a text message to his brother Roger in Miami and to a friend, Tommy Joyce, who was sailing a"buddy boat" in the area as a safety measure."We are in the life raft," he texted his friend."We need help *ASAP."
Ultimately, it was another sailing vessel, the Rolling Stones, that came to the group's aid after Joyce shared the incident on a Facebook boat watch group. Rodriguez lost his boat and the group said they also lost their passports and many of their possessions, but they said they were just grateful to be alive.Kate Wilson, a spokeswoman for the International Whaling Commission, told The Washington Post, which first reported the story, that there have been about 1,200 reports of whales and boats colliding since a worldwide database launched in 2007.
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