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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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Dramatic overestimation in how much dynamite is needed to blow up a whale

Eager to clear a popular beach in the US of a beached sperm whale, local authorities hatched upon a dramatic solution on November 12, 1970. The 14m sperm whale was too heavy and in too difficult a ...
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“Oh Whale” Explores Oregon’s Infamous Exploding-Whale Video

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 ...
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Body of lost whale that died in Osaka Bay may be disposed at sea

This photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows a sperm whale drifting in Osaka Bay in Osaka's Nishiyodogawa Ward on Jan. 13, 2023. (Mainichi/Takao Kitamura) OSAKA -- The Osaka Municipal ...