SHIPLEY, Lois

The memorial service for Lois Shipley will be held on September 16, 2018 from Southern Kings & Queens Funeral Home Chapel at 2 p.m. Lois passed away on July 14, 2018. Donations may be made in Lois’s memory to Peter’s Road Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Southern Kings & Queens Funeral Home, Murray River. Online condolences may be made at www.peifuneralcoops. com

A video showing a humpback whale colliding with an inflatable tour boat off the coast of Nova Scotia is making waves online, just a few months after the introduction of new federal rules limiting the distance between vessels and marine mammals.

David Mulder, a passenger on the Zodiac inflatable whale watching boat, posted the video from Sept. 2 showing the whale’s tail suddenly rising from the water and then hitting the bow of the small boat.

The eight-passenger Zodiac, captained by Guy Melville, is the smallest tour boat in the fleet at Brier Island Whale and Seabird Cruises.

Melville, who has been leading whale watching tours for 10 years, said it had been a quiet day on the water, aside from a few spouts earlier in the trip when the whale lifted its tail in front of the boat.

Within a few seconds, the animal resurfaced for what Melville calls the “friendly tap” captured on video.

Melville estimated that the animal was longer than 15 metres, more than double the size of the boat carrying his seven passengers.

“I think people were just awestruck,” said Melville.

the web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time-continue