That w3as also my thought as I read the article. I wondered if there was a law saying you can’t boat within x feet of the whales. So there you are, 1000 ft away by law and another damn whale surfaces next to your boat…“But officer, I didn’r see it till it was too late”.
Honestly, a strange law since a drone would seem to be less intrusive then a boat. Ah well, the fickle ways of society.