On the 2nd day of Xmas, my Firefox gave to me: two whales exploding…
On December 13, National Geographic’s Wild aired a story about a dead whale that was found floating in a busy sea port of Taiwan in 2004. Fifty tons of sperm whale were en route to a necropsy through the streets of Taiwan when for no apparent reason, the carcass exploded.
Here’s the video:
This takes me back to my television reporting class. Professor Berg showed us a report from 1970 about a very similar situation. A whale had washed up on the beach and the towns folk didn’t know what to do with it…so they decided to blow it up. Here’s the video of the report
