That expert, Paul Thornton, was a highway engineer who made a plan to basically vaporize the whale into small enough pieces to be washed away or consumed by birds. Authorities decided to use TNT to dispose of the carcass, and an expert says on camera that the local group wasn’t really sure how much to use. An unusual whale carcass had washed ashore in Florence, just 60 miles west of Eugene and the nearest beach town. Reporter Paul Linnman’s voiceover is very calm in the produced final piece. 🐳 Dive deeper: Get unlimited access to the weird world of Pop Mech. The resulting footage, where the entire beach is splattered with different size pieces of blubber, has become iconic for its combination of newsy pathos and total chaos. On November 12, 1970, Oregon ABC affiliate KATU sent a reporter to an unusual event: the TNT-based “removal” of a huge whale carcass from a beach. Today, we’ve reached the 50-year anniversary of something so bad, it belongs in 2020. 'The hope was that the long-dead Pacific gray whale would be almost disintegrated by the blast, and that any small pieces still around after the.
They decided to obliterate it using 20 cases - half a ton - of dynamite. News reporter Paul Linnman became a icon for his role in the event. The infamous KATU Exploding Whale video has remastered To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the infamous beached whale incident that took place in Florence, Oregon on November 12th 1970, the. 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.Attendees weren't just splattered with raining blubber-they were in danger of injury.Fifty years ago, an Oregon news report captured the incredible demolition of a whale carcass.
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