Tonight's Topic: Thar It Blows (Up)!
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(Thanks to David [N5JRN] for reporting that the explosive used was Dynamite, not TNT)
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Nearly 50 years ago, the beautiful Oregon beach town of Florence experienced an explosion which still resounds to this day.
On Thursday, November 12, 1970, an Oregon Department of Transportation highway engineer was faced with disposing of a dead and rotting whale carcass which had washed up on the beach.
The result was what you might have expected when you try to use a lot of TNT Dynamite to vaporize a very big lump of whale.
Accordingly, we offer for your approval, 3 Questions about that 1970 Oregon Exploding Whale?
Please choose your answers from any of the 4 (reuseable) Answers of "A", "B", "C", or "D" (if applicable!) for each of the questions.
Good Luck and remember, YOU are always a WINNER with us, regardless of your actual answers!
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++ Thar It Blows (Up)! ++
Question #1: How big was the whale carcass?
A. 25 foot, 4 ton whale, or
B. 45 foot, 8 ton whale, or
C. 100 foot, 16 ton whale.
Question #2: How much TNT Dynamite was used?
A. 1/4 ton, or
B. 1/2 ton, or
C. 1 ton.
Question #3: TNT Dynamite was used because which of the following disposal method(s) was(were) rejected?
A. the carcass couldn't be buried because it might be uncovered, or
B. It couldn't be cut up and then buried because no one wanted to cut it up, or
C. It couldn't be burned, or
D. All of the above.
Unable to find a use for it, and unsure how best to dispose of it, the
Department of Transportation blew up a dead whale on the Oregon coast
in November of 1970. Why?
The Oregon Highway Division not only had a whale of a problem on its hands, but a stinky whale of a problem--what to do with one [Q#1] 45 foot, 8 ton whale, dead on arrival on a beach near Florence.
It had been so long since a whale had washed up in Lane County, that no one could remember how to get rid of one.
In selecting
its battle plan, the Highway Division decided [Q#3] the carcass couldn't be buried because
it might be uncovered, it couldn't be cut up and then buried because no
one wanted to cut it up, and it couldn't be burned,
so [Q#2] dynamite
it was - some 20 cases, or a half ton of it.
Anything left over, officials reasoned, would be taken care of by seagulls and other scavengers.
The KATU cameras stopped rolling immediately after the blast, but Linnman recalls making his way out of the area as huge chunks of blubber fell everywhere.
A parked car over a quarter of a mile from the blast site was the target of one last chunk.
Fortunately, no one was hurt as badly as the car.
However, everyone was covered with small particles of dead whale.
[SOURCE: 45th anniversary of the infamous exploding whale | KATU]
The Oregon Highway Division not only had a whale of a problem on its hands, but a stinky whale of a problem--what to do with one [Q#1] 45 foot, 8 ton whale, dead on arrival on a beach near Florence.
It had been so long since a whale had washed up in Lane County, that no one could remember how to get rid of one.
In selecting
its battle plan, the Highway Division decided [Q#3] the carcass couldn't be buried because
it might be uncovered, it couldn't be cut up and then buried because no
one wanted to cut it up, and it couldn't be burned,
so [Q#2] dynamite
it was - some 20 cases, or a half ton of it. Anything left over, officials reasoned, would be taken care of by seagulls and other scavengers.
The KATU cameras stopped rolling immediately after the blast, but Linnman recalls making his way out of the area as huge chunks of blubber fell everywhere.
A parked car over a quarter of a mile from the blast site was the target of one last chunk.
Fortunately, no one was hurt as badly as the car.
However, everyone was covered with small particles of dead whale.
[SOURCE: 45th anniversary of the infamous exploding whale | KATU]
VIDEOS:
Oregon's
Exploding Whale - 2012 KATU AM Northwest (KATU's 50th Anniversary)
Oregon's Exploding Whale - 1970 KATU (original report)
Oregon's Exploding Whale - 2002 KATU (abridged update)
AUDIO: Downloadable audio file (MP3)
=================Oregon's Exploding Whale - 1970 KATU (original report)
Oregon's Exploding Whale - 2002 KATU (abridged update)
AUDIO: Downloadable audio file (MP3)
++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ “GET A WHALE OF A DEAL ON A NEW OLDSMOBILE.”:
"You’ll also see what happened to ["Whale Bomber"] Walt Uemenhoefer’s brand-new 1971 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency. A chunk of flying whale meat the size of a coffee-table top had dropped out of the sky directly onto the roof of the big luxury car, blowing glass out in all directions and leaving its top flatter than its owner’s military haircut.
“My insurance company is not gonna believe this,” Uemenhoefer remarked ruefully when he saw what had happened. But he had to chuckle later on, when he remembered the sales promotion that had been going on at Dunham Oldsmobile in Eugene when he’d bought the car just a short time before. It was taglined, “GET A WHALE OF A DEAL ON A NEW OLDSMOBILE."
[Source: The day whale meat rained down on the town of Florence | Offbeat Oregon History | #ORhistory ]
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