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Hai in his Virtual Office over the Pacific Ocean.
He solves technical problems for the newspaper company from remote locations. |
So excited was he to report landing a 50 pound ocean sea bass near San Diego, Hai forgot to report what some might consider the actual highlight of the day. Photos of his huge catch were duly posted here a couple of days ago. But there are no photographs of a stunning event that had occurred earlier in his voyage: A grey whale gently breeched not 20 feet from his bobbing kayak. This amazing detail emerged in a telephone conversation today, he had forgotten the thrilling experience when it was replaced by another: the giant sea bass that took his hook and exhausted him during a half-hour battle.
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File photo courtesy NOAA.gov
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Next time, he says, he'll stow a waterproof camera and get a closeup of the friendly grey monster. (Hopefully, this isn't a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The whales are regular visitors to this area.)
Best of luck, Capt. Ahab.
And no, this really happened. It's not an April Fools joke.
