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 ...
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 ...
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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