An update to our previous post – the Sapphire Princess cruise ship, which was found to have impaled a female humpback whale on her bulbous bow last week, probably did not kill the whale.  A necropsy finished this week suggests that the whale was already dead.  This is the second dead whale impaled by the Sapphire Princess in two years.  Almost exactly a year ago, the Sapphire Princess arrived in Vancouver with 70′ fin whale impaled on its bow.  A subsequent necropsy determined that the fin whale had also probably been dead when struck by the cruise ship.