AUDIO: MASS WHALE STRANDING
There was a massive whale stranding off the coast of Tasmania, Australia, this week. Australian officials are focusing on the grim task of disposing of almost 400 pilot whale carcasses on a beach and two sandbars off Australia’s remote southern coast, while attempts to rescue the few remaining survivors goes on. Rescuers managed to free almost 90 of the long-finned pilot whales. The majority of those freed reached deeper water, officials said, but four had to be euthanised and others might return when the tide turns. Experts are calling this Australia’s largest recorded mass-stranding event.
* See? They want to avoid watching next week’s presidential debate train wreck, too.
* Pretty crappy navigating for something called “pilot whales”.
* The headline September 13 was “WHALES SUDDENLY ATTACKING BOATS”, so forgive me if I don’t get too worked up.
* Do you know where they train to deal with mass whale beachings? At the Jersey shore. True fact.
* First you have to get past the sight of all that blubber, so standing on the boardwalk at Ocean City helps desensitize you.
CLIP: Our classic “Whale Month At Red Lobster” parody spot.
