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A widely reported case of an exploding whale occurred in Florence, Oregon, in November 1970, when the Oregon Highway Division (now the Oregon Department of Transportation) blew up a decaying sperm whale with dynamite in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass. The explosion threw whale flesh around 800 feet (240 metres) away, and its odor ...
Oregon highway workers had to find a way to dispose of the rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long, eight ton whale in Florence, the closest beach town to Eugene, on Nov. 12, 1970. They decided to ...
Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser-known ones. The most famous explosion occurred in the United States at Florence, Oregon, in 1970, when a dead sperm whale (originally reported as a gray whale) was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass.
Paul Linnman (born January 25, 1947) [1] is an American former television news reporter and anchor in Portland, Oregon, and radio personality in the same city.He is perhaps best known for his 1970 KATU report on the attempt by the Oregon Highway Division to dispose of a dead, beached whale by exploding it (beaches open to motor vehicles are considered state highways in Oregon).
In November 1970, the Oregon Highway Division attempted to dispose of a rotting sperm whale that had washed up out of the Pacific onto a beach in Florence by blowing it up with dynamite.
A bloated and dead humpback whale was spotted floating off the Oregon coast, officials said. It washed ashore Monday, May 27, at Nehalem Bay State Park and ended up within a protected nesting area ...
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