Whale in the Thames

[Shawn R. L.]

100lbs of dynamite + 1 putrified whale. What more could you want?lol

 

[darklord]

Originally posted by reverend

Originally posted by darklord
happened in Bridlington (yorkshire) once but was a fully grown wright whale (i think) was about 40 metres or something it was huge. beached itself and lived for about 3 days. kept taking it out to see but kept returning. (fishermen say whales come ashore to die and when they do wont return to die at sea. Saddest thing i ever saw was looking into her eye when she was still alive

This is where I show my nerdish tendencies. I bet it was nowhere near 40m. Maybe 40ft. Not even a Blue Whale grows to 40m, unless it\'s a freak. I\'m an aquatic mammalian nerd lol

well your probably right but I just know it was massive

 

[KingM]

Just heard on the news the whale has died as they tried to get it back into open water.

Certainly a sad end to a bizarre turn of events

 

[finn17]

Not unexpected...

You\'d have to be either suicidal or dying already to swim in the Thames

 

[Talion]

That\'s a shame a fantastic animal, dead.

I don\'t balme the rescuers though, it would\'ve died if they hadn\'t done anything, so at least they tried, it\'s just a bloody shame it didn\'t make it.

 

[Hieronymus]

There have been Bull sharks in the Mississippi River seen as far north as St. Louis, more than 1700 miles from the Gulf of Mexico! And being a shark, I would have thought that freshwater would have been really bad for it. Maybe it was trying to swim to Minneapolis for a butter burger at Culvers?

 

[kittykat23uk]

Such a shame, but not unexpected. maybe they will find out some underlying cause when they examine the body.

 

[Modderrhu]

If I remember correctly, there are many sharks that can make excursions into fresh water, but only bull sharks do so regularly or for extended periods of time.

Locally, we call them zambezi sharks because they\'ve been found so far up the Zambezi river. All the way up to the Victoria Falls. They\'ve also made 1,000 mile trips up the Amazon.