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« on: July 06, 2008, 01:47:07 PM » |
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The Lone Surfer
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2008, 02:49:15 PM » |
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yeah, i'm pretty sure there will be no surfing there for the rest of the summer. |
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« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2008, 02:59:16 PM » |
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The carcas will most certainly attract the grey suits...  |
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"I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fast and so smoothly by the sea…" 40.58°, -73.70°
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« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2008, 05:38:21 PM » |
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hey guys. I was down there this am. Whale had started to putrify nice and full of gas. Bummer. I overheard staff saying they had been tracking it for sometime. Nasty. I was also taken aback by the amount of erosion since last year.
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2008, 07:26:02 PM » |
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I was there this morning, I wanted to have a picture taken of me standing next to it with my surf rod as a joke but they wouldn't let me get next to it. Then I spoke with my neighbor who is a cop in town, he told me it had been floating in the water 5-600 yards offshore for about a week, and that it had a broken back, and speculated that it had got hit by a freighter and drowned.
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 05:12:06 PM » |
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thats pretty scary
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« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 08:07:43 AM » |
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Def scary, and it's a wonder that after a week in the water, it hadnt garnered more attention.
I've seen dolphins, seals, turtles, rays, all sorts of fish, but I've never actually seen a whale in the waters near here...always wanted to, but I think we must be slightly off the traditional migratory waters for whales, no? Dont really have to go too far if you think about it, tho - they run whale watching tours off Cape Cod, yet the whales never seem to be seen too much off our coasts here.....although I guess off Montauk it might not be all that uncommon....
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"I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fast and so smoothly by the sea…" 40.58°, -73.70°
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« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2008, 09:16:41 AM » |
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I surfed there alone this am, nice SSE swell with a light W breeze, chest high on set. I've seen Minke whales a few times 2-3 miles offshore, they're like jumbo dolphins more or less. About 5 years ago a deep water lobster trap off PPB caught a juvenile whale up in its line and drowned ita dead whale is like a gift for shark fisherman (ask the guy in Mtk. who got that record Great White about that) yet when this beast washed up it was totally intact
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« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2008, 11:18:49 AM » |
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any word on how they disposed of the body/cleaned up? i mean, do they load it on a flat bed and take it to autopsy or soemthing else? just wondering what the aftermath of this sort of thing is.
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 12:25:07 PM » |
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it gets loaded up onto a dump truck, taken to the Monmouth County landfill, and the biologists from various schools/organizations come down and do their various research-type stuff to it, then it gets cut up and disposed of. Once it hits the land they have to take it and dispose of it. It has to be removed ASAP because its a health hazard. They actually kicked everyone out of the water for miles northward b/c they said there were organs floating around and if one swam in it that it could cause hepatitis.
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2008, 12:33:26 PM » |
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any word on how they disposed of the body/cleaned up? i mean, do they load it on a flat bed and take it to autopsy or soemthing else? just wondering what the aftermath of this sort of thing is.
maybe they'll blow it up like this one;
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Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who been to hell and don't want to go back.
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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2008, 12:49:03 PM » |
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any word on how they disposed of the body/cleaned up? i mean, do they load it on a flat bed and take it to autopsy or soemthing else? just wondering what the aftermath of this sort of thing is.
As long as the don't bury it on the beach..... http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2008/03/06/petrolias-whale-tale/Jacobsen reminds that whale meat is a coveted delicacy for great whites sharks. Even if buried, Jacobsen expects the whale's oils will continue to attract sharks for one to two years. This is troubling news for the area's handful of dedicated surfers like Leatherwood (also the son of renowned whale researcher Steve Leatherwood), who admits the shark issue will be "on his mind." Gilda, another inveterate surf rider, guesses that he "won't be surfing the mouth for a while." |
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"I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fast and so smoothly by the sea…" 40.58°, -73.70°
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« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2008, 03:22:58 PM » |
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I surfed there alone this am, nice SSE swell with a light W breeze, chest high on set.
so it looks like they're letting people back in the water despite the hepatitis/shark comments above? |
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« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2008, 03:24:32 PM » |
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i can't believe that
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« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2008, 04:01:08 PM » |
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they let people back in as soon as they hauled it off the beach that afternoon.
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