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Article: Officials say humpback whale was blob that sank fishing boat
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- September 30, 2006
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BETH DeFALCO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-30-2006
Officials say humpback whale was blob that sank fishing boat
By BETH DeFALCO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 09-30-2006, Saturday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
TRENTON — Authorities suspect a 35-foot humpback whale whose carcass washed up on a southern New Jersey beach this week was the mysterious black object that a group of fishermen say hit their boat before it sank off the Delaware coast a week ago.
"Moby Dick," joked fisherman Ken Arters of Chester Springs, Pa.
Arters was among the seven sport fishermen who spent 46 hours in a 4-by-5-foot life raft — intended to hold only four people — until being ...