Breaching whale capsizes Mass. canoe, drowning man

[April 22, 2010]  PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) -- A whale has leaped above the water and capsized a canoe in Massachusetts, drowning one of two men aboard the 12-foot vessel.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Connie Terrell says the men were left struggling in the cold water Wednesday morning after a whale breached near them. Biologists consider breaching a form of communication or play.

Terrell says the men were rescued by a vessel sent by a Provincetown-based rental company that had supplied the canoe.

The Cape Cod Times reports that a 47-year-old man drowned after the canoe capsized.

[Associated Press]

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