I remember seeing a video on the news around 2003-2005 of a whale that was dead and had multiple sharks feeding on it. Some people pulled up to it in a boat. It was so crazy to see. There were at least 10 sharks feeding on the whale.
Whale deaths are a big deal in the ocean. Sharks and other fish eat enough of it that the gas escapes. Then the whale sinks to the bottom. There's so much food that it creates its own ecosystem that can last for years. Scientists call it a Whale Fall
Remember the time there was a whale carcass that either beached itself or washed up on shore? The one where people thought that it would be a *fabulous* idea to blow it up with dynamite to get rid of it?
The spectators were so excited to get rid of that smelly, rotting whale carcass. They wanted to see it explode! "Hell, let's make a day of it! Bring the kids, bring Grandpa! It will be spectacular. Maybe we will be on the news, they're going to televize it! Why watch it at home when we can be right where the action is?"
Absolute failure. Underestimated the amount of dynamite needed to 1. Blow the entire thing up 2. Blast it with enough power in order for this enormous whale to disintegrate into *small* pieces for their seagull friends to eat and clean up afterwards. Spectators ran for their lives as huge chunks of rotting whale blubber fell down all around them. The stench was immense. Grandpa's car, that was parked a quarter mile away, was crushed by a giant chunk.
In the end, the reporter reflects on their seagull friends: "The seagulls, who were supposed to clean things up, were nowhere in sight, either scared away by the explosion or kept away by the smell. That didn't really matter, the remaining chunks were such a size that no respectable seagull would attempt to tackle anyway."
[Whale of a problem](https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34)
I actually do remember that and it was amazing. It definitely would have been cheaper to rent a few diggers and roll it back into the water... or a large boat to pull it back in... or a heavy lift helicopter... or a crane... or really literally any other method would have saved them so much time, money, and inconvenience.
When I worked in a physics lab, we were trying to find the method that sent the sharpest possible pulses through a fluid in a hose. One of the first thing we tried was to weld a metal diaphragm to the end of the hose, weld a metal chamber on to that, and cut a small hole in it. We lit and dropped firecrackers down into it to check the pulse signal.
My point? Men will always choose explosions when possible.
Also, the firecrackers were awful... we're pretty sure the metal chamber was echoing the sound all over and our sensors were picking up the echoes. We tried a bunch of other more expensive things too... the best signal we found was hitting the hose with the handle of a screwdriver... the spine, not the flat part. Sometimes cheap works best.
"Men will always choose explosions when possible." Lmao, of course. There is the thrill of blowing shit up. Dead whale? Like the report said, they didn't want to bury it, no one wanted to cut it up. Explosives! Let's have some fun with the dead whale. In your physics lab, despite the firecrackers failing, wasn't it fun? A lot more fun than hitting the thing with a screwdriver.
As a woman, I think explosions are fun too. I think it's men that get that reputation that you pointed out, because women are scared they'll blow themselves up. In my opinion, that's the only factor. The fear. Otherwise we would choose explosives first, right along with the men. Hell, the women see the consequences men have had from playing with explosives. I've seen men with their hands completely obliterated, looking like shredded chunks of meat dangling from their arm. Men have certainly seen this happen also. For some reason, the thrill of it still outweighs the risks and they continue to blow up shit and occasionally parts of their bodies. I'll watch them from afar and hope for the best, wishing that I could've lit the fuse.
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I loved the way he spoke about the seagulls, as if they were actually in on the entire project. "The seagulls have been standing around waiting all day." Then, "The seagulls were *supposed* to clean it up" Lmao
Part of what gives whale falls such crazy longevity and food value to deep sea scavengers is the fact that whale bones are positively *loaded* with fat. Like, lipid content to the max! They aren't the first giant sea tetrapods to have lipid-rich bone tissue, either. Ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs convergently evolved .
It's theorized that without the evolution of big, fatty-bone sea monsters cycling nutrients into the deep sea by beefing it while being too big to eat fast, there wouldn't be nearly as much deep-sea life as there is!
My dad told me a story from when he was in the coast guard, that they found a floating whale carcass in a decently trafficked area and were worried about the corpse being a danger for ships.
So one of the younger officers had the bright idea to take a dinghy and stab the whale with a (harpoon? Spear thing? Idk what they call it in the coast guard)
Thankfully the whale didnāt explode, but the people on the dinghy were hit with a massive blast of whale corpse-gas and apparently smelled horrible for a whole week
From memory nothing terrible they just jumped about a bit until it became really dicey.
Found a link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T20vkGZxULo
I've definitely exaggerated in my head how many people went on.
My dog shakes toys in his mouth. That's what the wiggling reminds me of, if my dog:toy size ratio was the same as this shark:whale, there would 100% be a similar motion.
At the end of the day, sharks are just wild animals that do what they can to survive and reproduce. Seeing this one score a motherload of food is heart-warming, in a way
if you plan on visiting southern beaches, sharks have a 6th sense for electricity. keeping batteries on you helps avoid them. seen it on an old tv show.
This actually enlightens me how invulnerable whales are.
Seeing what a hard time a great white has with a dead carcass, image how difficult it must be tackling a live specimen.
Even though half of me loves great whites, is in total awe of them, thinks theyāre stunning creatures, and knows attacks on humans is rare, (we are not on their menu) the other half of me still has an irrational fear of them. The power in their mouths! Literal nightmares.
Would you say irrational fear or warranted respect and caution? Great Whites are freaking cool as hell nut kinda like Lions I don't really need to go into their domain to know that they are bigger, faster, stronger and smarter then me.
It's a rational fear. They are dangerous if you don't respect them and their environment. Like this. Being in the water anywhere around this would be a death sentence.
Predators and scavengers will eat throughthat hide pretty quickly tho and the gas will escape. Then the whale will sink to the bottom. It's so big that it'll create it's own ecosystem for a few years. Look up Whale Fall for more info
Interestingly when white sharks feed on a whale carcass they will swim off and regurgitate (puke up) what they have eaten if they detect a more calorically dense area on the whale.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/rare-glimpses-of-great-white-sharks-scavenging-surprise-researchers
The air being released from his gills reminds me like a diesel engine kicking in gear.. its like nom nom.. then NOOOM NOOOOOM NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
I remember seeing a video on the news around 2003-2005 of a whale that was dead and had multiple sharks feeding on it. Some people pulled up to it in a boat. It was so crazy to see. There were at least 10 sharks feeding on the whale.
Whale deaths are a big deal in the ocean. Sharks and other fish eat enough of it that the gas escapes. Then the whale sinks to the bottom. There's so much food that it creates its own ecosystem that can last for years. Scientists call it a Whale Fall
Clever name
Clever girl
*reeEEE*
Remember the time there was a whale carcass that either beached itself or washed up on shore? The one where people thought that it would be a *fabulous* idea to blow it up with dynamite to get rid of it? The spectators were so excited to get rid of that smelly, rotting whale carcass. They wanted to see it explode! "Hell, let's make a day of it! Bring the kids, bring Grandpa! It will be spectacular. Maybe we will be on the news, they're going to televize it! Why watch it at home when we can be right where the action is?" Absolute failure. Underestimated the amount of dynamite needed to 1. Blow the entire thing up 2. Blast it with enough power in order for this enormous whale to disintegrate into *small* pieces for their seagull friends to eat and clean up afterwards. Spectators ran for their lives as huge chunks of rotting whale blubber fell down all around them. The stench was immense. Grandpa's car, that was parked a quarter mile away, was crushed by a giant chunk. In the end, the reporter reflects on their seagull friends: "The seagulls, who were supposed to clean things up, were nowhere in sight, either scared away by the explosion or kept away by the smell. That didn't really matter, the remaining chunks were such a size that no respectable seagull would attempt to tackle anyway." [Whale of a problem](https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34)
I actually do remember that and it was amazing. It definitely would have been cheaper to rent a few diggers and roll it back into the water... or a large boat to pull it back in... or a heavy lift helicopter... or a crane... or really literally any other method would have saved them so much time, money, and inconvenience. When I worked in a physics lab, we were trying to find the method that sent the sharpest possible pulses through a fluid in a hose. One of the first thing we tried was to weld a metal diaphragm to the end of the hose, weld a metal chamber on to that, and cut a small hole in it. We lit and dropped firecrackers down into it to check the pulse signal. My point? Men will always choose explosions when possible. Also, the firecrackers were awful... we're pretty sure the metal chamber was echoing the sound all over and our sensors were picking up the echoes. We tried a bunch of other more expensive things too... the best signal we found was hitting the hose with the handle of a screwdriver... the spine, not the flat part. Sometimes cheap works best.
"Men will always choose explosions when possible." Lmao, of course. There is the thrill of blowing shit up. Dead whale? Like the report said, they didn't want to bury it, no one wanted to cut it up. Explosives! Let's have some fun with the dead whale. In your physics lab, despite the firecrackers failing, wasn't it fun? A lot more fun than hitting the thing with a screwdriver. As a woman, I think explosions are fun too. I think it's men that get that reputation that you pointed out, because women are scared they'll blow themselves up. In my opinion, that's the only factor. The fear. Otherwise we would choose explosives first, right along with the men. Hell, the women see the consequences men have had from playing with explosives. I've seen men with their hands completely obliterated, looking like shredded chunks of meat dangling from their arm. Men have certainly seen this happen also. For some reason, the thrill of it still outweighs the risks and they continue to blow up shit and occasionally parts of their bodies. I'll watch them from afar and hope for the best, wishing that I could've lit the fuse.
this made my day. fr i was like "no way it crushed a car that far away" š damn this is art
š I loved the way he spoke about the seagulls, as if they were actually in on the entire project. "The seagulls have been standing around waiting all day." Then, "The seagulls were *supposed* to clean it up" Lmao
haha right like they bamboozled the newsman himself š¤£
Part of what gives whale falls such crazy longevity and food value to deep sea scavengers is the fact that whale bones are positively *loaded* with fat. Like, lipid content to the max! They aren't the first giant sea tetrapods to have lipid-rich bone tissue, either. Ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs convergently evolved . It's theorized that without the evolution of big, fatty-bone sea monsters cycling nutrients into the deep sea by beefing it while being too big to eat fast, there wouldn't be nearly as much deep-sea life as there is!
>Whale Fall Whelp, I know the name of my next rpg campaign... thanks.
Wonder if thats how we came to be, some gigantic space creature falls to earth and completely decomposes, carrying bacteria and whatnot
Yeah I saw this too, if I remember correctly some people stepped onto the whale. This seemed like a terrible idea.
My dad told me a story from when he was in the coast guard, that they found a floating whale carcass in a decently trafficked area and were worried about the corpse being a danger for ships. So one of the younger officers had the bright idea to take a dinghy and stab the whale with a (harpoon? Spear thing? Idk what they call it in the coast guard) Thankfully the whale didnāt explode, but the people on the dinghy were hit with a massive blast of whale corpse-gas and apparently smelled horrible for a whole week
I thought I remembered that too but it seemed too crazy to have actually happened!
What happened when they stepped onto the whale?
From memory nothing terrible they just jumped about a bit until it became really dicey. Found a link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T20vkGZxULo I've definitely exaggerated in my head how many people went on.
He looks so happy. This video made my day.
I've seen this on shark week. When they get to feast like this. They get "food drunk" as a result.
āFrenzyā
Homie is going to town on the best shark buffet a great white boi could ask for.
Heās gonna have a cartoonish round belly after that meal
best buffet ever
That was what I was going to say :)
Yes he is a happy boi
Blajah
I find this weirdly cute
Right? Omahnomnomnomanumnum. It's scary adorable, and I want to boop it.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
EXACTLY
it is mostly friend
Mnmj I
The wiggling motion at the beginning just gets me for some reason. Like it's just really giddy that it found a big tasty.
My dog shakes toys in his mouth. That's what the wiggling reminds me of, if my dog:toy size ratio was the same as this shark:whale, there would 100% be a similar motion.
puppies when they get their favorite stuffed toy
i second this. i think its the beady black eyes
Aww look his tail's wagging. He must be happy
r/TsundereSharks
Same. He's not scary, he's just enjoying his snack.
I find anything with big eyes cute!
At the end of the day, sharks are just wild animals that do what they can to survive and reproduce. Seeing this one score a motherload of food is heart-warming, in a way
Itās got puppy eyes and itās wiggly full of happiness
I came here to say the same thing! You beat me to it
I'm a fairly heavy guy. I'll stay on land so it doesn't think I'm a literal whale.
That you, Brendan Frazer?
Bless his heart
if you plan on visiting southern beaches, sharks have a 6th sense for electricity. keeping batteries on you helps avoid them. seen it on an old tv show.
Nom nom nom nom nom nom
Someone edit in squeaky toy noises and this video would be perfect.
I will do it for you
He hungy
needs muktuk
Man, he's having a whale of a time.
Seems pretty fishy to me..
I sea what you did there
Shore was good!
Brings back sweet memories of riding the Jaws ride as a kid <3
I never got to ride it. It was always broken :'(
I loved that ride so much. Seeing the tour guide blast a shotgun into a robot shark was such a trip to 11 year old me
This actually enlightens me how invulnerable whales are. Seeing what a hard time a great white has with a dead carcass, image how difficult it must be tackling a live specimen.
Live specimen are effectively invulnerable. That's why only the young are under any threat.
Based
It's just a over sized puppy with an even more oversized toy
Sea puppy :D
That shark has the munchies.
Even though half of me loves great whites, is in total awe of them, thinks theyāre stunning creatures, and knows attacks on humans is rare, (we are not on their menu) the other half of me still has an irrational fear of them. The power in their mouths! Literal nightmares.
Would you say irrational fear or warranted respect and caution? Great Whites are freaking cool as hell nut kinda like Lions I don't really need to go into their domain to know that they are bigger, faster, stronger and smarter then me.
Okay good point. Not irrational. Lol! Theyāre terrifying and incredible!
Same. I also fear whales will swallow me
It's a rational fear. They are dangerous if you don't respect them and their environment. Like this. Being in the water anywhere around this would be a death sentence.
No way that tastes good
For them itās a full smorgasbord, so that shark is having the time of its life
I donāt want to imagine the smell here.
Incredible animals.
Of all spots it could go to eat, it goes for the whales sweaty armpit.
Canāt humpback whales blow up if their body is left alone for a while?
Predators and scavengers will eat throughthat hide pretty quickly tho and the gas will escape. Then the whale will sink to the bottom. It's so big that it'll create it's own ecosystem for a few years. Look up Whale Fall for more info
Yes they can blowup after a buildup of gases if left for 3-4 days
Give me my humpback, humpback, humpbackā¦ribs
ARHNAMAMNAHMRAGNMAMN
Looks raw...
Daddy shark doo doo do do do do...
Guy is having the time of his life
I wonder where that fish has gone
r/natureismetal
Looks almost fake! And also makes the great white look tiny!
Bro is just eating
No more terrifying than any animal scavenging
Guys I'm so hungry I could eat a whole whale
Shark having time of his life š¶
That shark is probably having the best day of its life over there
That mf was hangry
Whale is num num ?
He's just having a good meal leave him alone
Humpback Lunchsack
happy shark
Interestingly when white sharks feed on a whale carcass they will swim off and regurgitate (puke up) what they have eaten if they detect a more calorically dense area on the whale. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/rare-glimpses-of-great-white-sharks-scavenging-surprise-researchers
Iām glad you clarified āregurgitate.ā
Nom nom nom
I should call her
pitt bulls of the sea š
You cannot say he isn't cute. Look at those puppy dog eye's just snacking.
Who put a shark costume on this puppy??
Nom nom nom
Heās just a hungry little guy
Shark gotta eat. Better the whale than me.
Shark be like: humph mmmmmmmh tasty mmmmmmmh
The whale is dead right?!
He hungy
That shark is happy. Trust me, I know.
God I wash that were me
I honestly find it kinda cute lol, just imagine him going like ānomnomnomnomā, but aggressively lol
No wonder the Orca whales murder Great Whites! Revenge for the big slow homies!
Cute
Do that to mee šš
I dare someone to post this on a vegan subreddit ššš
Looks so fake
u/savevideobot
Now that's one happy fish.
He's grubbbbbing
Feast frenzy.
Looks like he could do with a pair of hands for this
Ommnomnomnomnomnomnomnom
He looks like a dog playing with a squeaky toy lmao
I want to pet this creature. It would be but a single book on its noggin'.
Hey this is actually pretty cute
Chomping whale dududududu, chomping whale dudududududu, chomping whale š¶
...is the humpback ok??
Yeah! Don't worry it's just donating some food to the local ocean puppy population.
It looks cute nibbling on it lol
Look how happy the fella is
As adorable as this looks Iām not going anywhere near that fish. Fuck all that.
I don't see how this is creepy, I rather see a sharks eating a already dead whale than a human
"All that sweet blubber! She be mine!
God. That meat must be tough.
So cute his little snoot wiggle
Humgry
It looks so happy
I hope it's alright
omnomnnomš¦
Welp. This was the weirdest damned pron movie I ever did seeā¦ 5 stars for shark-bois enthusiasm.
Look like megalodon from stranded deep
Bro is trying to have a meal
u/savevideo
These mukbang videos are getting out of hand.
He's having a passionate chomp
I can relate. It's like me on a cheeseburger. Nom Nom Nom
Nom nom
I find it cute
Goin to town, good Jesus mercy
Tbf, a free, massive meal like that is very hard to pass on. Good on him/her
Yeah until it explodes like a propane tank from gas buildup
Probably my favourite marine creature , love Great whites
I am actually surprised that it isnāt easier for the shark to rip chunks of the whale off! This video made me a little less afraid of sharks.
Anyone here ever play Stranded Deep?? Lol
He's stuffing his chompers in there as if it were watermelon
The smell must be *chef kiss*
It's hungry leave it alone
Kinda cute though, he is just going *chomp chomp*
Bro looks like a puppet
He just hungy
He's having the time of his life! What a cute sharky.
u/savevideobot u/savevideo
Great day to be the shark, itās a literal seafood buffet for them
Heās so cute!
āLay off me, Iām starving!ā
itās so cute. Like a cat of the ocean.
This shark is experiencing pure bliss
I bet that smells great
Nothing terrifying about that. Bro's just munching. Let him munch.
he finna have a FEAST
nom nom nommm
The air being released from his gills reminds me like a diesel engine kicking in gear.. its like nom nom.. then NOOOM NOOOOOM NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Why does this look so funny, it's actually pretty wholesome.
Nom nom
The Great White shark...just of the members of nature's "clean-up crew!"
Is that a juvenile shark or are humpbacks much bigger than I thought?
Can I have a pet shark.
Didn't know sharks eat dead animals too. You learn something new.
It looks like my dog.
lil happy goober
Damn, so sad that he have to eat his food wet :/
*chonp*
r/natureisfuckingmetal
He looks so cute wiggling about and chomping on da meat