
According to the NOAA Fisheries Service, the Norwegian Cruise Lines boat that pissed off its 4,000 passengers by stalling in the Hudson River for several hours right before docking likely ran into the 30-foot whale that washed up in Brooklyn the next day. NBC New York reports that “it’s not known if the whale was killed by the ship or if it was already dead when it was hit.” This is what it’s like when news trends collide.