CARRIED BY WHALE
LAUNCH LIFTED IN AIR FISHERMAN’S EXPERIENCE (Received December 6, 12 noon.) SYDNEY, Dec. <3. Two miles off Cronulla beach, a 16foot launch was lifted into tho air by a 50-ft. whale rising to the surface to blow. The boat and its occupant, Mr. Norman Scott, wore carried on the back of the wlfale before it dived again and the launch slipped back into the sea, and half tilled with water. Other fishermen witnessed tho strange spectacle and rushed to the rescue, but Dir- Scott was able to reach the shore.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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