Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Bjarni Mikkelsen, a marine biologist at the National Museum of the Faroe Islands misses being blown away as whale...


Bjarni Mikkelsen, a marine biologist at the National Museum of the Faroe Islands misses being blown away as whale corpse explodes in front of him.
The gut-busting reaction came after a buildup of gases, specifically methane, caused by the putrefaction process.

Read the article:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/27/scientist-narrowly-misses-being-blown-away-as-whale-corpse-explodes-in-front-of-him/
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7 comments:

  1. Dr. Cassone27 November 2013 at 22:47

    There will be a few of us like this whale tomorrow...

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  2. Corina Marinescu27 November 2013 at 22:49

    Take time to breath =)

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  3. Yuriy Fazylov (Yuriyology)28 November 2013 at 00:17

    Must not be his first time doing it. This gif is missing a funny tune.

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  4. Christopher Peirs28 November 2013 at 00:23

    There is a small whale museum on the island of Ameland in the Netherlands. In that museum they show a movie of an exact same scene of an exploding Sperm Whale that stranded on their beach.

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  5. Corina Marinescu28 November 2013 at 00:44

    I bet the smell was great =))

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  6. Christopher Peirs28 November 2013 at 00:45

    I sure wouldn't want to be standing there when it happens. ;)

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  7. Nandlal Shah28 November 2013 at 02:03

    How could he missed sign of rigor mortise and gas buildup in corpses?

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