I go to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium all the time, but never went to their library until the other day. All I have to say is – WOW. They have a HUGE section on WHALING. Unfortunately, you can’t take out books from the library, and the aquarium is too far a drive to go to just read books during the day, so I ordered some of them (see below).
For the 13+ years that I’ve been running this site, I’ve never posted personal information about myself. The truth is, I’m an avid supporter of aquariums and extremely invested in marine life. My passion focuses on invertebrates (yay nudibranches!). I could care less about vertebrate marine life, and I dislike vertebrate MAMMALIAN “marine” life. And just plain hate whales.
I started reading this book the other day and it is SOOOO MORBID. Nice details on shipwrecked cannibalistic sailors raping local natives and gory details on rendering whales.
A whole section dedicated to old whaling books, back when whaling was A-OK
I ordered this book off Amazon and will be getting it shortly
Stupid ass whale carcass is hogging up some beach front. Oregon has already shown that you shouldn’t blow up a whale – it doesn’t work out so well.
Whales are SO disgusting that even other sea critters won’t eat their nasty ass carcass. If all whales went away, we wouldn’t have this problem anymore 🙂
stupid whale carcass
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“It’s that time of year again—a dead whale has washed ashore, and officials aren’t sure what to do with the rotting carcass because there’s a possibility that it could explode.
The 15 tonne, severely bloated and slightly decayed animal graced the shores of Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer, near Montpellier, France, earlier this month. Having closed off the beach to the public, French authorities are now trying to come up with a plan of action for the rotting whale.
At the moment, it’s unclear whether disposing of the animal by land or by sea would be best, but one idea that’s been thrown out there is to drag the carcass out to sea and then blow it up with dynamite. However, this is hindered by the fact that boats can’t get close enough to the whale due to the presence of sand banks, The Local reports. Another master plan is to chop it up into little bits and then dispose of the chunks elsewhere, but we all know what happens when we start jabbing things into dead whales:
Dead whales can explode because of a build-up of pressure that results from the accumulation of gases inside the body. These gases, which include methane and carbon dioxide, come from the putrefaction and fermentation of the animal’s tissues after death. Often, the pressure gets released through natural weak points such as the mouth or anus, but a bite from a hungry shark or the knife of a curious marine biologist would also do it.
It is possible to relieve the pressure in a controlled manner with gentle incisions, but this can go horribly wrong if they penetrate too far. One unlucky person learned this the hard way, and ended up being flung into the air with the animal’s exploding guts. However, the person was standing on top of it, which was probably not the most sensible thing to do. “
What WAS a lovely, calm 17th-century Dutch painting became a goddamn nightmare after art conservators were cleaning the image and ‘unearthed’ a hidden beached whale.
Apparently dumbass whales were all the rage when the painting was created, but about one to two centuries later, people came to their wits and realized a nasty ass whale carcass doesn’t exactly make for great art. So they painted over the jerk whale. The conservation group even admitted that the whale was probably considered offensive and/or reduced value of the painting. HAH.
Check out the painting below – it looked a heckuva lot better before that goddamn whale carcass resurfaced.
So the aforementioned town that got stuck with dead whale carcasses has an update.
A museum in Canada might take those nasty ass bodies. Don’t forget, blue whales are the largest, nastiest of all the whales and these fuckers are getting all bloated, rotting and extra stank and might explode, too (see prior post for bloated body pic).
Check this dumb ass quote out: “I think now people are beginning to realize that how often does a blue whale wash up on your beach? It’s pretty awesome to have it there,” said Parsons”.
No, no it’s NOT awesome to have a huge, bloating, rotting baleen mutherfukker carcass or two on your beach, bitch.
And why the fuck do you need a permit to move a dead whale carcass!? WHAT? Psh.
A stupid whale was SO stupid, that instead of sinking to the bottom of the ocean to complete the circle of life after it dead, it’s stupid body washed ashore and is now terrorizing a local sea side community in Newfoundland.
Bad enough it’s stank ass is rotting away on the beach, but it’s swelling and bloating. On top of it’s stinky, air polluting carcass, it’ll cost the town a lot of money to either haul it back out to sea or bury it.
I love how half the comments are about shooting the dead whale body to release the gas that is causing it to bloat!!
Apparently the International Court of “Justice” has decided to tell Japan they can’t hunt whales anymore in the Antarctic. Who gives a shit if it was for ‘medical research’ OR commercial endeavors? It’s Japan’s business if they want to hunt whales.
Guess what? Not every goddamn whale is on the extinction list, OK? Stupid Minke Whales are on the NOT AT RISK list, and there are over half a million of those fuckers in OUR seas!
I’m so sorry, Japan, that Australia got all hoity toity on you and totally imposed their BS cultural norms on yah. 🙁
Granted, why the hell would you think it’s OK to swim around giant beasts in the ocean is beyond me. That’s like walking up to a wild herd of elephants and being like ‘oh hi, let me ride you and stuff’. Stupid human is stupid.
Do you know that I have been running this site since 2002?
OVER FOURTEEN YEARS!
And I still hate whales just as much, if not more.
My friend went to Iceland recently and got to eat whale. If this isn’t a tourist attraction, I don’t know what is.
My hatred of whales is so well known that the Japanese business unit of a company I worked at sent me a can of whale meat. For the record, it tasted like cat food. Or how I would imagine cat food to taste.
I will start posting updates again. I don’t feel like bothering with a Facebook Page for this site unless for some reason there is high demand. Please send me any interesting articles, news, etc that shares our hate of whales. Whether it is a mass beaching, other countries over-whaling, or animals attacking and eating whales, I wanna hear it.
“hat began as bizarre bird behavior has turned into something out of a horror film for threatened whales in Argentina, where seagulls have learned that pecking at the whales’ backs can get them a regular seafood dinner.
Seagull attacks on southern right whales have become so common now that authorities are planning to shoot the gulls in hopes of reducing their population.”
We hope to enlighten you to the true issues behind whales. These evil, overgrown mammals have taken over the seas of humankind, and have made suckers out of many of you as a shield for money hungry, overly political eco terrorists!
Voyage of the Mimi left many young people damaged for years. Some turned to drugs, others to alcohol, and a percentage turned to whalerage. Join our forces, spread the word, and end the Order of the Cetaceans!
A museum in Canada might take those nasty ass bodies. Don’t forget, blue whales are the largest, nastiest of all the whales and these fuckers are getting all bloated, rotting and extra stank and might explode, too (see prior post for bloated body pic).
