View Full Version : Burying a Sperm Whale
AniaR
09-19-2012, 06:43 PM
Kinda morbid... but kinda neat too http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/how-to-bury-a-great-sperm-whale
Mermaid Lorelei
09-19-2012, 06:50 PM
Why bury it? If it died naturally, wouldn't it be of more worth to pull it out to see as fish food?
AniaR
09-19-2012, 06:58 PM
large whales release chemicals into the water when they die ESPECIALLY mercury (as they sadly accumulate a LOT of it in their blubber) think in many places around the world it's in public interest to dispose of them this way sadly. I know that's what happens here too
AniaR
09-19-2012, 06:59 PM
also trapped gasses in them can make them explode apparently. lol that would suck
Shivice
09-19-2012, 07:14 PM
Eating Whales is wrong.
Mermaid Lorelei
09-19-2012, 07:37 PM
Hmm. I forgot about the mercury part.
Merman Dan
09-19-2012, 08:01 PM
A bit more civilized than the infamous exploding whale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkZottYDpEE
AniaR
09-19-2012, 09:02 PM
no one is eating it... lol
Merman Dan
09-19-2012, 10:01 PM
also trapped gasses in them can make them explode apparently. lol that would suck
It has been known to happen... Dead Whale Explodes in Taiwanese City (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3437455.stm)
no one is eating it... lol
This time... Beached Whale Eaten (http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/pictures/meat-of-dead-beached-whales-cut-off-overnight.html)
Capt Nemo
09-21-2012, 03:55 PM
Hope they drained the spermacetti oil and recovered the ambergris first!
Fresh ambergris is worth hundreds of millions per pound.
AniaR
09-21-2012, 03:57 PM
*remembers that from Futurama*
Mermaid Annariea
09-21-2012, 05:20 PM
when i first read the title of the thread, i thought it said "buying a sperm whale".
i was like, "that would be awfully hard to keep in a fish tank....."
xD
poor whale :( and her baby too. thats a shame.
WavyMermaidy
09-21-2012, 05:39 PM
when i first read the title of the thread, i thought it said "buying a sperm whale".
i was like, "that would be awfully hard to keep in a fish tank....."
xD
That's absolutely what I thought it said...and everytime it pops up in the news feed that's still what I think it says :D Glad I wasn't the only one, lol
Very sad though with it being pregnant and all, though I think it is neat that they already had a "fish cemetery" in which to bury it!!
AniaR
09-21-2012, 06:25 PM
geesh I wrote it and even I thought it said that a few times!
Mermaid Annariea
09-21-2012, 10:37 PM
hahahah yaaayy!! im not the only one who thought that xD
Merman Dan
09-21-2012, 11:14 PM
Hope they drained the spermacetti oil and recovered the ambergris first! Fresh ambergris is worth hundreds of millions per pound.
To be fair, I'm not sure it's "fresh" ambergris that counts, as I thought it needed to float on the ocean surface for some time, to absorb the smell of the sea.
when i first read the title of the thread, i thought it said "buying a sperm whale".
i was like, "that would be awfully hard to keep in a fish tank....."
xD
poor whale :( and her baby too. thats a shame.LOL!!! Same! And yes, i feel really bad for the baby :( And Aeolius, leave it you you to find a video about exploding whales LOL! :)
Merman Dan
09-22-2012, 08:05 AM
And Aeolius, leave it you you to find a video about exploding whales LOL! :)
awww... c'mon, that whale does have its own website ;) theexplodingwhale.com (http://theexplodingwhale.com)
Alveric
09-26-2012, 11:43 AM
Those guys in Oregon didn't realize that explosives don't make things go away, it just turns them into smaller bits and spreads them around. Something you really don't want to have happen with a corpse, especially one that weighs many, many tons.
Wow. a website devoted to exploding whales. and just putting it out there i STILL think the title is Buying a Sperm Whale, and ive only read it like a thousand times lol!
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