Encounter With Freighters and Tankers

You have encountered a large vessel in the shipping lanes.

Large ships are one of the deadliest threats whales face.

Large ships take time to change course. Sometimes they can’t change in time to avoid colliding with a gray whale. The whale can be injured or killed.

Collisions with large vessels often go unnoticed and unreported. Gray whale deaths probably range from the tens to the hundreds each year.

Change Course