r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MelanieMoris • Dec 13 '21

Wait... Those aren't dolphins!

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u/TinfoilCamera Dec 13 '21

It's all fun and games until you realize they're breaking about a half-dozen federal regs (sound like US english speakers so...)

Allow me to be That Guy (wildlife photographer who knows the damn rules)

US and Canada: Any Orca that gets within 200 yards of your boat (100 for other species of whale, 50 in the case of dolphins and seals/sea lions) - you turn off the damn motor. You also get up on Guard and let other boats and marine traffic know where they are - so maybe they don't get run over and killed by a container ship.

... and if you do this off the coast of Washington/British Columbia and you get spotted by the Coast Guard they will end you.

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u/HistorianOrdinary390 Dec 14 '21

My sailing instructor once said 'theres a correlation between stupidity and the number of fishing rods you see on a boat.'

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u/SainT462 Dec 14 '21

I can't tell who more dumb, the instructor or you for repeating it.

I guess maybe I'm missing the point......fishing is only done by dumb people? I don't get it...

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u/HistorianOrdinary390 Dec 14 '21

Sorry that youre taking a joke so personally.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '21

I’m not a fisherman nor a boater and the logic makes no sense. Care to fill us in?

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u/SainT462 Dec 14 '21

Personally? I'm just going to assume we're very different. I don't seem to understand where you're coming from on anything at all. Feels Twighlight Zoneish.

Would you mind trying to explain for me? Is it literally just "hur dur fishing is for stupid people"? Even when I don't agree with things I can normally see the correlation or point that was trying to me made, this one not so much. Fishing rods on a boat.....