WHALE OF A TIME
Posted: 04/12/09 | Views: 3,253
Has anyone noticed that the Discovery Channel seems to employ more than it's fair share of people who are willing to go beyond the line of what any normal person would consider sane? I don't know who's in charge of their programming, but I want to shake that person's hand. Seriously, how they get these people to do what they do is beyond me. The reason I bring it up is because I was watching a show on Discovery not too long ago, documenting how one of these screw-loose maniacs wanted to better understand the feeding habits of the Great White shark. What was his super scientific plan, you ask? He towed a whale carcass out to sea. Might as well have been an all-you-can-eat buffet. The sharks swarmed the thing like flies on, well, you know. If you're wondering where I'm going with this -- a dead whale washed up on the beach in Del Mar yesterday.
Not living too far from where this thing washed onshore, you'll have to understand my reservations of running back into the water. Then, how's this, the lifeguards towed the carcass five miles out to sea only to have it wash back up a few miles south next to Flat Rock at the south end of Torrey Pines State Beach. This was the same whale that had washed up in Huntington Beach a week prior. The body was so far gone, had rotted away so much that when one of the lifeguards who was towing it out to sea, went to climb out on the decomposing carcass, but the minute he transferred his weight to his hands to push himslef up, they punched all the way through the skin. Before he knew it, dude was elbow deep in rotting whale innards. Someone should do everyone a solid and go Reno 911 on it's ass - all you need is a few well-placed charges, someone with questionable morals to push the button, then call in the clean-up crew. Problem solved. Oh stop, I'm only kidding... kind of.
- Evan Fontaine
Not living too far from where this thing washed onshore, you'll have to understand my reservations of running back into the water. Then, how's this, the lifeguards towed the carcass five miles out to sea only to have it wash back up a few miles south next to Flat Rock at the south end of Torrey Pines State Beach. This was the same whale that had washed up in Huntington Beach a week prior. The body was so far gone, had rotted away so much that when one of the lifeguards who was towing it out to sea, went to climb out on the decomposing carcass, but the minute he transferred his weight to his hands to push himslef up, they punched all the way through the skin. Before he knew it, dude was elbow deep in rotting whale innards. Someone should do everyone a solid and go Reno 911 on it's ass - all you need is a few well-placed charges, someone with questionable morals to push the button, then call in the clean-up crew. Problem solved. Oh stop, I'm only kidding... kind of.
- Evan Fontaine
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