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NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service
The Princess Cruise Sapphire Princess cruise ship was forced to delay its docking in Juneau Wednesday morning when a dead whale was found on its bow.

The ship sat idle for several near Tracy Arm south of Juneau while a tugboat and divers worked to dislodge the whale carcass.

After freeing the whale, a boat then towed the whale to shore.

A team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine mammal specialists will perform a necropsy on the whale on Friday to determine how it died.

While scientists don't know for sure what kind of a whale it was, officials say it appears to be a young humpback.

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