A British cruise line apologized to its passengers after one of its ships docked at a port in the Faroe Islands during a pilot whale hunt.
Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, is situated in the North Atlantic, between Scotland, Iceland, and Norway.
Ambassador Cruise Lines confirmed on July 9 that its ship, Ambition, arrived on the same day in the port of Torshavn while there was “a hunt of 40+pilot whales in the port area.”
“We were incredibly disappointed that this hunt occurred at the time that our ship was in port,” the cruise ship operator said in a post on Twitter….