Humpback Whale Sinks U.S. Family’s Sailboat in Wild Attack

NOAA Fisheries A humpback whale rammed an Alaska family’s sailboat in Glacier Bay on July 29 and sank it. Tania Lewis and her husband were asleep, having spent the day sailing in Glacier Bay, when the whale struck at about 11:30 p.m. Their son Lou, 23, was still up reading and alerted his parents. A dinghy attached to the boat was already flipped and full of water. Only after they capsized it by accident could they turn it upright. “That’s how my husband and I got to shore,” Lewis said. Lou…