Subject: Case Study: Riding a Right Whale

Michael Williamson (whe_william)
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Subject:      RIDE ON RIGHT WHALE COSTS MAN $500
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24-Aug-95 03:41 pm Regular  International
 
RIDE ON RIGHT WHALE COSTS MAN $500
 
 
   Sydney, Aug 24 AAP - A New South Wales south coast man, fined
$A500 ($NZ575) for the ride of his life on the back of a southern
right whale, today stuck to his argument that it takes two to tango.
   Andrew Curven denied that he ``scrambled'' on the back of a whale
at Bermagui Harbour on June 2 last year, maintaining it was the
whale's idea to surface under him.
   However the Land and Environment Court found him guilty of
interfering with a marine animal and today fined the 29-year-old
unemployed fisherman from Burmagui.
   ``I'm a bit disappointed. I still stand by the fact that you
can't swim with a whale unless it wants to swim with you,'' Mr
Curven said outside court.
   ``It alone will initiate the contact and it alone will control
the amount of interaction it will have with a human being.''
Curven's advice to anyone contemplating interfering with a whale was
``obviously, don't do it''.
 
 
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