Beached sperm whale with two Volkswagen beetle automobiles at Florence, Oregon, November 1970
PH Coll 1461.4 On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale beached itself at Florence on the central Oregon coast. At the time, beaches were technically classified as state highways, and the disposal of the whale carcass fell under the jurisdiction of the Oregon Department of Transportation. A...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:social/12850 2023-05-15T18:26:39+02:00 Beached sperm whale with two Volkswagen beetle automobiles at Florence, Oregon, November 1970 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections United States--Oregon--Florence Scanned from a photographic print at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2014 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/social/id/12850 unknown Society and Culture Collection http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46740 SOC13642 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/social/id/12850 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Robert Wampler "Exploding Whale" photographs. PH Coll 1461 xyz Photograph; Image ftuwashingtonlib 2019-03-17T00:02:44Z PH Coll 1461.4 On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale beached itself at Florence on the central Oregon coast. At the time, beaches were technically classified as state highways, and the disposal of the whale carcass fell under the jurisdiction of the Oregon Department of Transportation. After consulting with the U.S. Navy, the DOT decided to treat the whale carcass as they would a giant boulder and blow it up with dynamite. George Thornton, the engineer in charge of the operation, was warned by a military veteran with explosives training who happened to be on the scene that his proposed 20 cases of dynamite would be far too much for the job, that 20 sticks would do just fine. Thornton ignored his advice, and on November 12, 1970, at 3:45pm, the dynamite was detonated, throwing whale blubber over 800 feet in every direction and damaging the military veteran's car. The whale carcass, however, was only partially destroyed, leaving it to the Oregon Highway Patrol to remove the remains. It is now the policy of the Oregon State Parks Department to bury whale carcasses where they land, and if the sand is not deep enough, they are relocated to another beach. Other/Unknown Material Sperm whale University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Thornton ENVELOPE(-57.467,-57.467,-63.267,-63.267) |
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PH Coll 1461.4 On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale beached itself at Florence on the central Oregon coast. At the time, beaches were technically classified as state highways, and the disposal of the whale carcass fell under the jurisdiction of the Oregon Department of Transportation. After consulting with the U.S. Navy, the DOT decided to treat the whale carcass as they would a giant boulder and blow it up with dynamite. George Thornton, the engineer in charge of the operation, was warned by a military veteran with explosives training who happened to be on the scene that his proposed 20 cases of dynamite would be far too much for the job, that 20 sticks would do just fine. Thornton ignored his advice, and on November 12, 1970, at 3:45pm, the dynamite was detonated, throwing whale blubber over 800 feet in every direction and damaging the military veteran's car. The whale carcass, however, was only partially destroyed, leaving it to the Oregon Highway Patrol to remove the remains. It is now the policy of the Oregon State Parks Department to bury whale carcasses where they land, and if the sand is not deep enough, they are relocated to another beach. |
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