It wouldn't quite so funny if the bloke on the boat were't laughing fit to bust

From The Daily Mail, a video titled Pair of divers almost eaten by two hungry humpback whales

Or if you prefer to watch a bit of advertising before the video proper starts:

It's not just cows killer whales...

Spotted by JuliaM in National Geographic News:

The death of a British marine biologist in Antarctica last month [July 22] is thought to be the first human fatality caused by a leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). But scientists fear further seal attacks as the number of people working in the region continues to rise*.

Kirsty Brown was dragged underwater by the seal while snorkeling near Rothera research station on the Antarctic Peninsula. Horrified colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scrambled a rescue boat and managed to pull Brown from the water. Despite trying to resuscitate her for an hour, the station doctor was unable to save the 28-year-old...

See also Killer whale 'thrashed trainer to death'

* See also "Number of humans killed by Martians set to rise after Earth's Spacefleet invades Mars"

Whale attacks boat

From the BBC:

A couple on a whale-watching trip off Cape Town, South Africa, say they had a lucky escape when a 10m (33ft) specimen leapt on to their yacht.

The southern right whale, a species known for poor eyesight, snapped the mast before sliding back into the water, said Paloma Werner. She and her partner had just seconds to take cover, she said. A nearby tourist caught the moment on camera...

The southern right whale navigates by sound, leading Ms Werner to suspect it was an accident...

... as opposed to a deliberate attack?

"Whaling worsens carbon release, scientists warn"

Here's classic scare story from the BBC:

A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes - or a large forest's worth - of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say. Whales store carbon within their huge bodies and when they are killed, much of this carbon can be released...

In their initial calculations, the team worked out that 100 years of whaling had released an amount of carbon equivalent to burning 130,000 sq km of temperate forests, or to driving 128,000 Humvees continuously for 100 years...

Hmmm, you may think, that doesn't sound like very much. Correct: Dr Missile then sort-of-ruins the whole thing with this frank admission:

Dr Pershing stressed that this was still a relatively tiny amount when compared to the billions of tonnes produced by human activity every year.

Killer whales: a bit like cows

People tend to stay indoors over winter, so there haven't been any cow attack stories recently, so I'll have to make do with this:

A killer whale at the SeaWorld amusement park in central Florida killed a trainer a sheriff's spokesman said...

Media reports said the orca at the park's Shamu Stadium grabbed the woman by the waist, thrashed her about and took her underwater. The trainer was killed just before the start of a public performance and the stadium was immediately evacuated... The sheriff's official said preliminary accounts indicated she slipped and fell in, but that was still under investigation...

The orca involved in Wednesday's incident, named Tillikum but popularly known as Tilly, has a controversial past. Tilly was blamed for the drowning of one of his trainers in 1991 while he was performing at Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, the Orlando Sentinel said.

Sold to SeaWorld as a stud in 1992, the whale was involved in a second incident when authorities discovered the body of a naked man lying across his back in July 1999. Authorities said the man, who had either snuck into SeaWorld after hours or hidden in the park until it closed, most likely drowned after suffering hypothermia in the 12.7 degrees Celsius water.

A former contractor with SeaWorld told the Sentinel that Tilly is typically kept isolated from SeaWorld's other killer whales and that trainers were not allowed to get in the water with him because of his history.

There's no video of the incident, but I imagine it was a bit like Nigel's savage attack on a damp rag. Only with more splashing and an actual death..

"Peace pledges as whale meet opens"

Going by the photo accompanying the article, shouldn't that be "... as whale MEAT opens"?