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Fortunately, they were unrelated events
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Can someone please elaborate on the exploding whale?
Wikipedia is unusually cryptic on the subject in the article and Youtube won't let me open the linked videos for some reason...
Oh, man, have I got a story for you...
https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34
If that link doesn't work... In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn't know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
Wow. This was a... blast... from the past.