This is pure irony. Unfortunate, of course, but still. Ok, they can't rule out it might have been some other large marine animal, but they think it was a whale.
Japan's coast guard searched for a giant whale on Monday that they suspect collided with a passenger ferry -- injuring 97 people -- or any other clues about the cause of the accident.
Three patrol vessels and a helicopter were deployed to investigate Sunday's accident, in which the high-speed ferry is believed to have hit a whale or another large sea animal near Kagoshima Bay, according to Coast Guard official Hidehiro Yamada.
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