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Ship Strikes of Whales are more common than you might think!

Marine biologist Greg Silber is after new insights to prevent US vessels from striking whales. “What we did was build a whale model that was completely to scale,” Silber told Business Insider. “The same density, the same weight, the same size, relative to the size of the vessel model. And then we ran the ship model at the whale.” Read the rest here 08:29