Burying a Sperm Whale

[AniaR]

Kinda morbid... but kinda neat too http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/how-to-bury-a-great-sperm-whale

[Mermaid Lorelei]

Why bury it? If it died naturally, wouldn't it be of more worth to pull it out to see as fish food?

[AniaR]

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]

also trapped gasses in them can make them explode apparently. lol that would suck

[Shivice]

Eating Whales is wrong.

[Mermaid Lorelei]

Hmm. I forgot about the mercury part.

[Merman Dan]

A bit more civilized than the infamous exploding whale.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkZottYDpEE

[AniaR]

no one is eating it... lol

[Merman Dan]

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]

Hope they drained the spermacetti oil and recovered the ambergris first!

Fresh ambergris is worth hundreds of millions per pound.

[AniaR]

*remembers that from Futurama*

[Mermaid Annariea]

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]

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]

geesh I wrote it and even I thought it said that a few times!

[Mermaid Annariea]

hahahah yaaayy!! im not the only one who thought that xD

[Merman Dan]

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.

[Ashe]

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]

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]

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.

[Ashe]

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!