You can't stop everything bad from happening

Federal officials to investigate reports of injured orca: "The National Marine Fisheries service said Thursday it will investigate reports of an orca injured in a collision with a whale-watching boat off San Juan Island last week."

Apparently the orca that was injured bumped into the boat... All the boats in the area were stopped.

From the article the whale watch tour company seems to have been part of Whale Watch Operators Association Northwest, which follows very strict whale watching guidelines.

Hopefully the damage isn't too serious and the whale heals quickly, as is mentioned in the article.

Gary