Your Serve
A diver in the Dominican Republic looking for some adventure got just that. He was invited to play tennis with a member of the Animal Uprising™ Aquatic Olympic Team. The whale served.
Unfortunately, the diver was the ball.
(Randy) Thornton said he was in shallow reefs called the Silver Banks, an area where divers are allowed to swim with humpback whales, on March 1.
The whales "slow down and let you catch up with them," said Thornton, the owner of a dive shop, Dive Addicts, in Draper.
But there was nothing playful about a mother who had a calf on her back.
"The calf woke up and got spooked and that startled the mother, who swished her big tail twice," Thornton said.
He was hit and his femur broke "like a twig."
No word on whether Thornton cleared the net. But he did get operated on with (we kid you not) a sledgehammer. Tennis, anyone? Dominican Republic medicine? Why are you all running away?
By Blackhawk, Thursday, 15 March , 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Tennis? Noooo. These whales are WAY too hip for that. This was a whale version of Pong, 1.0. Animal Uprising Alert (they’re developing games)!!!!
What’s next? Missile command? Space invaders?
Or maybe she was just going for distance? Ya know…’hey junior, watch this…port flipper…diver fore…3 feet from the pin’.
Just sayin.