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Emily Olson

78 pilot whales were slaughtered near a cruise ship carrying marine conservationists

A group of fisherman drive pilot whales towards the shore during a hunt in the Faroe Islands in May 2019. (Andrija Ilic/AFP via Getty Images)

A cruise line is apologizing to passengers who witnessed the killing of dozens of pilot whales near their docked ship this week in the Faroe Islands.

Passengers aboard the cruise ship Ambition, owned by the U.K.-based Ambassador Cruise Line, had just arrived Sunday in the port of Tórshavn in the Danish territory when they caught the spectacle, part of a long-standing and highly scrutinized local tradition.

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