How not to blow up a whale with Dynamite

[Rusty Heap]

1 dead stinking 45 foot whale.


1/2 ton of Dynamite.


A innovative transportation engineer for his time in 1970.



RIP to a creative thinker!


Heck I'd of done the same thing.........


but maybe a full 2000 pounds of TNT would of made the chunks smaller?







Man Behind Oregon's Famous Exploding Whale Dies : The Two-Way : NPR

[Nostril Cheese]

RIP George Thornton, you glorious overachiever.

[LWJ]

Welcome to Oregon. This is normal activity.

[MT930]

1000 LBS of TNT!
Great Story !

[M.D. Holloway]

and a new dish was born....Whale pate'

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I used to lay over in Florence every day back in my cargo rat days - interesting place. The whale blow-up site is a bit of a cult destination. Many of the beaches there are still littered with refuse (trees and such) that I think are from the Mount Saint Helens eruption. To my knowledge no efforts have been made to try and blow them up though. I did find a really disgusting, bloated dead cow while walking out there one day, semi-buried amongst the rubble.

[livi]

Pragmatic guy.

[scottbombedout]

The reporter was fantastic a 'land blubber newsman' 'the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds'.

[Neilk]

I think that was one of the first videos I downloaded over a 56k modem in the mid 90s, pre-Youtube. Took over 1.5 hours for 10-11mb IIRC.

That was video totally cracked me up

[Rusty Heap]

Florence Oregon is a fabulous town if you like ATVing Quad riding in Sand dunes, it's a great place to visit OR live.

[drcoastline]

That was awesome.

[matthew-s]

Git-R-Done!

What do they do these days? Tow them out to sea?