Surprise encounter for haulage firm employees
A KILLER whale (orca) is not what haulage company workers expect to come across every day - but that's just what several Woodside Haulage employees encountered when they took to the waters to transport drivers in two ribs from Carrickfergus to Peel on the Isle of Man last week.
Mark Woodside, Managing Director of the Ballynure business, was in one boat with a driver, and his cousin Robert in another, when Robert spotted what they initially thought was a basking shark 10 miles directly east of Portavogie.
It turned out to be, unmistakably, a killer whale - an unusual sight in the Irish Sea.
"It was an amazing sight so close to the boat. We had never seen one before and we all watched with interest as it went by," Mark said.
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