About a week ago a reported 45-ton Fin Whale washes up onto a California beach near a waste water plant. The dead Fin Whale was about 57 feet long and weighs about 35-45 tons. The waste removal crew towed the 57 foot behemoth out to sea until the line hoisting the whale snapped 14 miles off the coast. The Waste Removal crew didn’t expect to see the same whale wash up again to a neighborhood beach stinking up this Memorial Day evening.
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They think that it is indeed the same whale as last weeks mishap but why do whales even wash up onto land. Soon they would have to do something with the whale because when an animal dies their body fills up with nitrogen, carbon and maybe methane. After a certain point the pressure has to be released. Either via some exit hole or the passing of gas. But when an animal of this magnitude dies the gas is on a higher scale and with gravity keeping the mouth closed the gas can not be properly released. So the whale usually ends up exploding.
Usually dead whales wash up when they die and their carcass somehow gets caught in an ocean current similar to what had happened to this particular whale. Other times the whale is caught in a storm and the storm surges will wash it on to land. They are usually rescued by concerned citizens who show up bucket of water to keep the marine mammal moist and then the fire department comes and hoists the whale back to sea.
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