When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...
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Oregon’s exploding whale became a bizarre public disaster
Oregon’s attempt to remove a dead sperm whale by explosion became a chaotic and cautionary tale.
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Exploding Whale: The Wildest News Report of All Time
The sleepy town of Florence, Oregon, became the setting for one of the most bizarre news stories in American history. An eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore, measuring a whopping forty-five feet in ...
The word “meme” didn’t exist when Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil—a KATU-TV reporter and cameraman, respectively—chartered a flight from Portland to Florence one cool November day in 1970, and the notion ...
In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...
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